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To: Iscool; marshmallow
Cute.

Among the problems that Protestants have is that they do not understand the difference between truth and the expression of truth, between accuracy and precision, and they do not understand the notion of context.

Did you know that if you are baptized with water in the name of the Trinity ou are a member of the Catholic Church? And that, despite the lies of anti-Catholics websites, excommunication does not constitute throwing you out of the Catholic Church?

Precision in discourse requires care and effort. Sometimes I have the energy to show that kind of care and to make that kind of effort. Sometimes not. Here it is Saturday, and my guess is that marshmallow was understandably careless in his or her choice of words.

Make the most of it. I stopped using that sort of gambit in adult discussions back in 1962 when I was 14.

38 posted on 01/05/2008 1:18:00 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg
the difference between ... accuracy and precision

Accuacy implies precision, but not conversely: A statement can be precise without being accurate, but it cannot truly be accurate without being precise.

48 posted on 01/05/2008 2:07:09 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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To: Mad Dawg; marshmallow
Did you know that if you are baptized with water in the name of the Trinity ou are a member of the Catholic Church?

Only in the mind of (some) Catholics...

Among the problems that Protestants have is that they do not understand the difference between truth and the expression of truth, between accuracy and precision, and they do not understand the notion of context.

Ha...So marshmallow was accurate but not quite precise, eh??? Nice try...But no cigar...

Here it is Saturday, and my guess is that marshmallow was understandably careless in his or her choice of words.

We haven't heard again from marshmallow so I doubt that is the case...

Make the most of it. I stopped using that sort of gambit in adult discussions back in 1962 when I was 14.

I find it interesting as well as typical, the length at which you guys will go to defend yourselves, even when you know one of you is wrong...And then you resort to insults when you can't defend yourself...

And that's typical as well, isn't it...

59 posted on 01/05/2008 3:03:41 PM PST by Iscool
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