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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Shroud exposed at early date (Tim O'Neill)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.195059.8535@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:50:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.082301.10916@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
- >>Would you mind clarifying?
- >>This could mean that you haven't looked at the subject much at all, and you
- >>haven't seen most of the theories. Or it could mean you _have_ seen most of
- >>the theories but think they have mistakes. So which theories have you already
- >>seen?
- >I've seen all the theories and they are all fragile.
- >There could be some I've missed and there could be some new ones hot off the
- >press.
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- Yes, but _which_ones_? Name them. "I've seen all the theories" is a
- non-statement; by definition, if you've never heard of some theory, you can't
- be aware that you've never heard of it.
- --
- I am of course experienced in teaching and have read the writings of Socrates.
- -- Ed Nilges
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- Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
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