Hi All Desperate words from a desperate person Struan. It looks like your bluff has been called old chap! Whether or not 'Anon' is correct in his interpretation is a matter for debate, this forum is a place for debate (although hardly of the mass type that you seem to hanker after) so please debate with the person that you assert is wrong. He may have abused Aristotle's words and ideas or he may not - and as I'm no scholar of Aristotle it's not for me to say - but he has certainly not been abusive towards you, except in that he has dared to disagree with you and provide a prima facie rational argument. If you are unable or unwilling to engage in debate over this matter then whinging and whining to me about it is pointless so don't bother. If I were half a man such as you I would probably stop the debate but being a full man I see no reason to stop intelligent debate in the correct arena. Can you prove they are lies? Or is it just another opportunity for you to engage in your own abusive behaviour as a none too subtle means of avoiding the issue and avoiding a debate which there is every possibility that you will lose. There is a pattern building up here with you Struan. Where you are unable or unwilling to debate with your equals and (possibly) betters you resort to verbal abuse and irrelevance hoping that it will distract others sufficiently that they fail to notice your own inadequacy. Unfortunately for you though, you've been rumbled!!!!! At worst 'Anon' is guilty of misinterpretation (possibly, I don't know, see above) but this hardly constitutes abuse - except to the most warped and desperate mind. So Struan, as a test of your encyclopaedic knowledge of philosophy and mastery of debate let's see if you can conduct a conversation without resorting to insult or abuse or swearing etc. If you can do so until a reasonable conclusion is reached I will donate £10 to the charity of your choice. Ya can't say fairer than that me old mucker but I think my money is perfectly safe. Horse On 27 Jan 2001, at 1:28, Struan wrote: > Greetings, > > You see, Elephant's latest post is just the sort of deliberately insidious > abuse that Horse, if he were half a man, should stop. I did not claim that > the term reason was from the Latin. I did not say that Aristotle was OK and > I did not say that, 'Aristotle has an intuitionist theory of correctness in > argument'. I didn't even mention Plato. > > These are deliberate lies and, as any reasonable person will see, have no > place in rational debate. This is abuse of the very essence of humanity and > those who perpetrate it deserve nothing but being told at every turn that > they are total twats. > > Incidentally, this is the kind of deceitful and utterly unforgivable abuse > which Horse condones and promotes. A disgrace to any reasonable forum and > another confirmation (as if one were needed) of his hypocrisy. > > Struan > > > > > > MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org > Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ > MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: > http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html > MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
