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- From: smaill@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Alan Smaill)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Stephen Grossman
- Message-ID: <SMAILL.93Jan23035151@leven.aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:51:51 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: torkel@sics.se's message of 21 Jan 93 19:53:23 GMT
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- In article <TORKEL.93Jan21205323@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
-
- In article <1993Jan21.183010.22929@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smaug.uio.no
- (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
-
- >and will like Voltaire defend even his right to be met by proper
- >argument, and not simply abusive language.
-
- I haven't noticed Voltaire saying anything about Grossman. But you are
- a bit hasty, surely, in speaking of his "right to be met by proper
- argument". Why do suppose that we have a right to be met by "proper
- argument" (whatever this term may mean to you), whatever abusive twaddle
- we spout on the net ourselves?
-
- Hmm, how does this go:
-
- it is right that I am met with abusive twaddle:
- therefore I have a right to be met with abusive twaddle.
-
- (Did I get that right?)
-
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