From: "gracchus" <tiberiusgracchus-AT-home.com>
Subject: Re: A Plea for Grammatical Sanity
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:58:52 -0700


>
> My conclusion: clear writing denotes nothing, in the virtual
stupidity of
> the internet. Stick to clear thinking.
>
> Cheers,
>    Daniel


perhaps, but my assertion is in the form:  if clear writing is
present, then clear thinking preceded it (in formal logic: if p, then
q where p is the presence of clear writing and q, clear thinking).  i
wholeheartedly agree that unclear writing certainly is not always the
result of unclear thinking (if ~p, then ~q does not follow from: if p,
then q).  i'll go even further and assert that while clear thinking is
not a sufficient precondition for clear writing, it is a necessary
precondition.

roger