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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.170906.23508@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan17.030224.13349@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan24.001701.20480@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan24.060152.15624@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:09:06 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- In article <1993Jan24.060152.15624@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.001701.20480@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan17.030224.13349@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan16.215258.14511@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>>>In article <1993Jan15.012942.10882@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>>>>>>>
- >>> long time ago, and many attribution lines away, I wrote:
- >>>>>>>>>Nope, not at all Kebbin. I admited it was a poor answer when I replied
- >>>>>>>>>to another article in this thread. I also corrected the mistaken
- >>>>>>>>>answer to include examples of people carrying on conversation while
- >>>>>>>>>sleeping, quite intelligently. One example I used was that of a
- >>>>>>>>>hematologist I had occasion to discuss a patient with at 2AM. He was
- >>>>>>>>>quite responsive, and remembered none of it the next day. He stated
- >>>>>>>>>that he must have slept right through the conversation.
- >>>>>>>>
- >>>>>No Kebbin, I said "he stated he must have slept right through the
- >>>>>conversation"
- >>>>
- >>>>You also said "He ... remembered none of it the next day". I merely repeated
- >>>>what you said, with a speculation as to the cause.
- >>>>
- >>>> [...]
- >>>>
- >>>>If I was "wrong" [sic], it's only because you gave me incorrect information,
- >>>>namely, that the hematologist "remembered none of it the next day". If you
- >>>>want to point a finger of blame, point it at yourself.
- >>>>
- >>>Further proof that the problem lies in your inability to read an
- >>>entire paragraph, and comprehend it. Try reading it again.
- >>
- >>Blather.
- >>
- >Oh come on Kebbin, you're trying to claim now that 'remembered none of
- >it the next day' is 'incorrect' information?
-
- Mark, stop playing dumb (you are _playing_, aren't you?). I clearly said that
- the "remembered none of it" comment was an echo of what you yourself said.
- I have no idea whether it's actually true or not. I'm just repeating what you
- told me. As for the "slept through it" part, how is that anything but
- speculation, given that the hematologist admits having NO REMEMBRANCE of the
- event? Did he have a REM monitor hooked up while he was talking to you?
-
- >>I use terms that people will understand, Mark. "Schizophrenia" is understood
- >>by most people the same way "MPD" is understood by the Medical Elite. But
- >>since we have, as far as I know, only one member of the Medical Elite in the
- >>audience, I used the term mostly likely to be understood by the most people.
- >>That's not "wrong"; it's just an attempt to facilitate communication.
- >>
- >If this were true, then there would have been questions raised when I
- >initially corrected you about the term 'multiple personality disorder'
-
- That's the laughably *weakest* argument I've heard in a long time:
-
- "If I erred, someone would surely have corrected me. Since they
- didn't, I'll assume I'm correct."
-
- Back to the drawing board, Markie Poo.
-
- - Kevin
-