On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 5:09:42 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 4:50:55 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 4:27:30 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: >>> >>> >>> People can hold several different theories about different areas of >>> science at the same time. Bringing up some bad review of a book by Maudlin >>> on space-time theory does not seem to be relevant to the issue at hand, >>> which concerned quantum mechanics. Your approach is sometimes known as >>> 'poisoning the well', or an ad hominem attack -- bring up some irrelevant >>> criticism of a person in order to discredit their views on something quite >>> different. >>> >>> You are coming close to trolling behaviour, Phil. >>> >>> Bruce >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> But isn't someone who posts and doesn't say who they are a troll? >> >> You have no link to a profile, website, CV, or anything else that I have >> ever seen. >> >> It's like all the anonymous posters in social media - no one knows who >> they are. >> >> @philipthrift >> >> >> >> > > Also nowhere have I "ad hominem" Maudlin. I agree with him: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/HEFlTQYIBoQ/3hDx__qMAgAJ > > > @philipthrift >
I should say I agree with his essay *How Mathematics Meets the World *in general - his approach. You were the one that bought up Tim Maudlin. So no one should read what his theory is? @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d0855857-ccc4-4443-bbde-968be321f751%40googlegroups.com.
