On the contrary Marsha, this is about the wonder of language, and the freudian slip by your little ole fingers, created the bon-mot for how low it is possible to grovel - down to the gravel in fact. My biggest smile of the day so far in fact - please don't withdraw it ;-) It's already in "my" dictionary.
Regards Ian On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Should have been grovel, not gravel. > > > > On Mar 11, 2010, at 7:01 AM, MarshaV wrote: > >> >> 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 > > > > ___ > > > 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
