Hi All: If this "wrong Ed" who lacks both letters and formal qualifications can interject, I am reminded of the Prof whose mind was so full of knowledge that you couldn't possibly introduce a new thought. As Mortimer J Adler's book "10 Philosophical Mistakes" taught me, there is a difference between knowledge and opinion, even when well informed opinion is conventionally accepted as being true. Knowledge, he claims, is that which can be (is capable of being) disproven. All else is opinion. Yours in ignorance, Ed G ==================== From: Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Musings on the FTAA Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ed, It needed to be said. I was angry with Christoph Reuss a week or so ago when he wrote that I was trying to hoax the FW about the existence of super-volcanoes. Furthermore, he will simply not discuss differences of opinion with any logic and resorts to ad hominem arguments too readily. Several FWers wrote me privately in my support, but I think it's about time that some support was given openly. FW has always had a high and courteous mode of discussion (except for one other several years ago) and it's unseemly that we descend into a bear pit. Keith H At 13:19 29/04/01 -0400, you wrote: >Chris, > >I'm not sure of what you're after, but I'm getting tired of responding to >someone who is so absolutely correct that there is no room for dialogue. >You know nothing about me, and I'm pretty sure that I really don't want to >know much about you. Judging from paragraphs like the following, you are >obviously out to offend and demean, and I really don't want to play your >game. > >> Hilarious. This just confirms that you swallowed his PR whole (and only >> this was my point about the "buddy", nothing else). If anyone invites a >> totalitarian system, it is uncritical people like you and "Quebec Wall"- >> defenders like him. > >Stuff it, >Ed > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Calus <http://www.calus.org> 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
