Horse, Dave may know what he's talking about, and I may not know what I'm talking about, but regardless of all my sniping, I wish Dave much success.
Horse, should I gravel even lower? I can you know. And mean it. Marsha On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Horse wrote: > By being a bit more gracious and admitting that Dave does know what he's > talking about? > > On 11/03/2010 08:18, MarshaV wrote: >> How can one compete with the ample credit that Dave gives himself? >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:52 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: >> >> >>> DMB said >>> >>> "... this question about language and experience, at least roughly, is >>> about whether it's possible to reconcile Rorty and James. And people >>> like them too of course. C'mon admit it. That's interesting." >>> >>> Good. So yes that IS interesting. I though for a while there we were >>> debating the no-brainer whether language (and tone and rhetoric and >>> style of argument) were part of philosophy (or not ?!?!) Phew. >>> >>> I think Matt (and gav and others) are right though ... that there is >>> an important style difference between "professional philosophy" on the >>> one hand, trying to situate these arguments in the existing (US >>> Pragmatist) canon, and those of us amateurs on the other who are >>> simply comfortable with the obvious facts, enough to get with worrying >>> about how best to apply them to real life beyond professional >>> philsophy. >>> >>> I think Dave deserves some credit for the former - even if it sets up >>> a viscious cycle of mutual frustration between the professionals and >>> the amateurs. >>> >>> Regards >>> Ian >>> >>> >> > > -- > > Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving > safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but to skid in sideways, > chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally > worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"... Hunter S Thompson > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
