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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d0855857-ccc4-4443-bbde-968be321f751%40googlegroups.com.
