"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence"
Christopher Hitchens Sent from my iPad On Jan 29, 2018, at 11:53 AM, howard posner <[1][email protected]> wrote: Where I come from, the party asserting a fact has the burden of proving it. But we're not really talking about facts (and certainly not about "news") here, just a sweeping generalized opinion about the crabbiness of more than 50 percent of the lute players in the world. You tend not to distinguish much between your opinions, often unsupported on their face, and actual, verifiable facts. Crabbiness is not measurable or verifiable, unless you're in possession of some Crabbiness Unit Meter technology I'm not aware of. And I'm really perplexed at the crabby reactions, including yours, to Rainer's fairly interesting inquiry. On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:26 PM, Ron Andrico <[2][email protected]> wrote: Howard: Raw data is there for you to sort for yourself in the form of 20-plus years of archived posts. I'd love for you to disprove the results of my observations, in your typical sweet and gentle manner. RA From: [3][email protected] <[4][email protected]> on behalf of howard posner <[5][email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 12:55 AM To: Lute net Subject: [LUTE] Re: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 On Jan 28, 2018, at 10:43 AM, Ron Andrico <[6][email protected]> wrote: I'll play the role of diplomat here. I find that most lute players tend toward crabbiness Would you like to share your raw data on this, or is it being peer reviewed for publication? since we play an instrument that is almost never playable without excessive tuning, humidifying, adjusting frets, restringing, restringing again after the expensive chanterelle breaks, and so on. But let's accommodate a few seemingly inane queries anyway. Rainer usually already knows the answer to any question he might ask, so we await the punch line. So this is you playing the role of diplomat? To get on or off this list see list information at [7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Lute Mail list technical information [8]www.cs.dartmouth.edu How do I get on the lute mail list? To get on the mail list, send email with a Subject: of "subscribe" to [9][email protected] and your name will be added to ... -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/ 9. mailto:[email protected]
