File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 301


Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 14:30:43  +0100
From: "John McWilliams" <jhm29-AT-cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: PLC: Your inquiry about Stirling


--On Fri, Nov 7, 1997 8:24 am "Stirling Newberry" <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
wrote: 

> You, Mr. McWilliams have posted factual errors on this thread, and are
> engaging in petty insult and partisan bickering in an patent attempt to
> smear those people who you are against. Again - if you do not like being
> held in contempt for petty and insulting behavior, then I suggest you
> refrain from it. For myself - I do not care one bit about the opinions of
> people who resort to calling people "nutters" &c as it is clear that they
> lack the intellectual and philsophical resources to mount any sort of
> sustained argument.

I don't have the slightest partisan interest in this matter. I'm not
selling a journal. There is no one "I am against" - I know no one on this
list personally. I'd really love to give a close reading of your posts -
the little words like "patent" which do so much and the J'Accuse emotive
style (get that language "smear"/"court"/"libel" etc.). Really quite a gas
- and well done, I must admit - if rather chilling. But I'm sure many are
doing that sort of reading anyway and coming to similar conclusions as my
own...

Cheers,

John


              =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B John McWilliams
                    Department of History and Philosophy of Science
                    University of Cambridge
                    Free School Lane
                    Cambridge CB2 3RH =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B                      




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