"Devine, James" wrote: Quoting someone: > > > Some folks sititng in university offices in the United States often will
And there are some folks who never choose to argue with specific arguments from specific opponents. They prefer to set up ghostly (and mostly nonexistent) opponents with silly arguments. It so simplifies life if one never needs to confront actual postions held by acutal people who are actually present in the conversation but can carry on this ghostly argument with "some people." I agree with Jim's actual arguments, but he will never get a reply to those arguments. "Someone" will invent another ghostly "someone" somewhere to reply to. Carrol
