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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Clarifying "Restrictions"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.231406.15929@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <BzuF2A.AIL@rice.edu> <1992Dec26.233848.13472@rotag.mi.org> <PATRICK.92Dec27114646@blanco.is.rice.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:14:06 GMT
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- In article <PATRICK.92Dec27114646@blanco.is.rice.edu> patrick@blanco.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.233848.13472@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- > In article <BzuF2A.AIL@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
- > >In article <1992Dec19.081855.14741@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- > >>In article <1992Dec18.165413.8758@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- > >
- > >>>Considering his tendancy to
- > >>>argue both sides of any given question, I'd say he is the one who
- > >>>needs to be concerned with moral inconsistancy.
- > >>
- > >>Arguing a position and believing it aren't necessarily the same thing, schmuck.
- > >
- > >Sure, kebbin. I bet Karl Marx was really an aristocrat, too.
- >
- > The inability to see the other side of an argument is a sign of superficiality.
- >
- >Silly me -- I thought it was a sign of just plain stupidity.
-
- Then take the matter up with Mark Cochran, who seems to think that seeing the
- other side of an argument is a sign of "moral inconsistancy" [sic].
-
- > The uncriticized, unanalyzed viewpoint is almost certain to be a worthless
- > viewpoint. As for Karl Marx, he probably COULD argue convincingly for the
- > aristocratic point of view in a debate, because although he ultimately didn't
- > agree with it, he understood it and appreciated it up to the point of his
- > disagreement.
- >
- >Why am I reminded of a former grad student at NCSU who claimed he knew
- >Aristotlean thought better than Aristotle?
-
- I have no idea why you would think such a thing, Humpty. From his works, I
- know that Karl Marx had sufficient intellectual depth to be able to argue
- compellingly from an opposing viewpoint. In fact, I may have even read some
- of his attempts to argue from an aristrocratic viewpoint, I can't remember
- for sure. I can, however, speak with a fair amount of confidence on that
- partciular point. Note however, that I never claimed to know Marx's thoughts
- better than he did...
-
- >> > [lots of pee-pee waving about largeness of medical centers]
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >> Besides, it's not just the size of your medical complex, it's how you use it :-)
- >
- >Indeed -- I guess that's why we have UTMDAH down here, and not up in some
- >ice mine in Michigan, eh? (I wonder why we have such folks as Michael
- >DeBakey and Denton Cooley around here -- I guess they just couldn't stand
- >the competition for your pearls of "wisdom" up there at Moo U...:-)
-
- I think you're confused, Humpty. "Moo U" is Michigan State (MSU), not U of M.
- I've never heard anyone refer to U of M as "Moo U" before...
-
- - Kevin
-