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| 25 Nov 2005
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Posted on 11/25/2005 8:34:07 AM PST by Exton1
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To: donh
An insult is not necessarily an Ad Hominem.I know precisely what an ad hominem is and I called it accurately.
do you have trouble understanding why a biology professor might find your dismissive opinions of his entire profession irksome enough to respond to in kind?
Well, in kind would mean to demonstrate that mathematics was low-order thinking.
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posted on
11/27/2005 1:57:59 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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To: RightWingNilla; donh
"Good catch."
Well, Donh beat me to it.
442
posted on
11/27/2005 1:58:29 PM PST
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman; RightWingNilla
I recall, in doing some research on PM that there were others with the same title. I found at least one modern one.
Whitehead and Russell
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posted on
11/27/2005 2:00:13 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
You seem to think so. Coming from someone who goes nuts and calls in the mod when I don't ping his majesty!
Youre a funny guy Amish. I'm sure youre a real hit with the hawkeye gals.
To: AmishDude; CarolinaGuitarman
I found at least one modern one. Whitehead and Russell That was a colossal failure.
But it somehow might have been more useful than penicillin.
To: AmishDude
u
It is extremely bad form to talk about someone on a public thread without pinging them.
Nonsense. If you have been politely asked to terminate a discussion with someone, than, indeed, it is bad manners, though by no means a hanging offense, to "talk behind their back". However, if you choose to engage in a protracted discussion on a public forum with a large number of people, it is absurdly silly to complain because a conversation about you occurs to which you are not explicitly invited. It is no more their job to search the text for your exact login name, than it is for you to search the text for your login name.
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posted on
11/27/2005 2:05:39 PM PST
by
donh
To: donh
It may be the difference between eradicating the disease in 30 years or getting a marginally less painful treatment now. The latter is extremely important. I'd prefer the former, myself. Of course, given that we often get neither...
447
posted on
11/27/2005 2:06:36 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
They had better tell MIT to correct their page.
Newton's Principia Mathematica
The Burndy Library
448
posted on
11/27/2005 2:06:37 PM PST
by
AndrewC
(Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
To: AmishDude
uWell, in kind would mean to demonstrate that mathematics was low-order thinking. Where's your formal proof that biology is a "lower order" of thinking than mathematics?
449
posted on
11/27/2005 2:07:43 PM PST
by
donh
To: AmishDude
The full title of Newton's work is:
"Philosphiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"
translated as "The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"
Whitehead and Russell are the ones who wrote "Principia Mathematica*.
450
posted on
11/27/2005 2:09:31 PM PST
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: AmishDude
I know precisely what an ad hominem is and I called it accurately. Really? To what argument, precisely, was his Ad hominem response aimed, in place of a responsive argument?
451
posted on
11/27/2005 2:10:48 PM PST
by
donh
To: donh; RightWingNilla
It is considered, on FR, appropriate to ping the individual to your post if you talk about them personally. Now, there can be some leeway if the mention is part of a longer reply or the reply is to one person. RWN, however, chose to talk about me personally and ping others to that posting. If you are going to type in the names of others just to talk about a poster, you should at least add the name of the subject. It's not my rule and I pinged AM for the purposes of verifying this. Moreover, the thread is long and it is cumbersome to search through all of the posts.
donh, I do know how to use the search function as I used it in Google with "Principia Mathematica -Newton" to find another work with that title.
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posted on
11/27/2005 2:11:41 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
It may be the difference between eradicating the disease in 30 years or getting a I see. Formal mathematicians were just on the edge, just almost ready, just panting with desire--to produce penecillin, but, out of professional couresy, waited 30 years or so for Fleming to stumble onto it with stupid old biological thinking. How polite.
453
posted on
11/27/2005 2:13:58 PM PST
by
donh
To: CarolinaGuitarman; donh; RightWingNilla
donh simply asked me a question about PM. I only wanted to verify that he was referring to Newton's work. It was RWN who decided to make this a gotcha moment.
454
posted on
11/27/2005 2:14:25 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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To: RightWingNilla
That was a colossal failure. Well, of course it was. There was flaw in the 9-trillianth and first step of the proof.
455
posted on
11/27/2005 2:15:37 PM PST
by
donh
To: AmishDude; donh
RWN, however, chose to talk about me personally and ping others to that posting. Did I hurt your feelings that badly?
Don't be so sensitive Amish. Its unbecoming for a conservative.
To: donh
I see. Formal mathematicians were just on the edge, just almost ready, just panting with desire--to produce penecillin, but, out of professional couresy, waited 30 years or so for Fleming to stumble onto it with stupid old biological thinking. How polite. BWHAHHAA! Imagine how warped your brain has to be to actually think this way.
To: donh
I was speaking more generally, not about penicillin in particular.
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posted on
11/27/2005 2:19:25 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
Ping to #457, so don't get your panties in a bunch Amish.
To: AndrewC
I just said that there are others that wrote a work with the title of Principia Mathematica. I am well aware of Newton's work.
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posted on
11/27/2005 2:22:44 PM PST
by
AmishDude
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