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To: Virginia-American
Why should anyone accept your list, just because it's posted on FR hundreds (maybe thousands?) of times?

It's your list. It carries no weight, no authority. The spam is posted and reposted, when the evos are called on it, they say, "dispute the list."

Well, why should anyone bother?

We have dictionaries that say "Websters" and "American Heritage" and "Oxford English"--what do we need with a dictionary written by DC?

88 posted on 10/23/2006 1:55:02 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle; ml1954; Coyoteman
Mamzelle: Why should anyone accept your list, just because it's posted on FR hundreds (maybe thousands?) of times?

If we agree about what sense words are being used in, we may avoid the fallacy/sin of equivocation.

Mamzelle: It's your list. It carries no weight, no authority. The spam is posted and reposted, when the evos are called on it, they say, "dispute the list."

What definitions do you think are incorrect? Why?

Mamzelle: Well, why should anyone bother?

To avoid the fallacy/sin of equivocation.

Mamzelle: We have dictionaries that say "Websters" and "American Heritage" and "Oxford English"--what do we need with a dictionary written by DC?

Because the dictionaries give every attested use of a word, whereas a specialized area like biology may use only one of them.

We aren't discussing theology, we're trying to discuss science. It is important that the terms be explicitly defined and agreed upon.

That is, if we're people of integrity who want to commumnicate clearly and avoid the fallacy/sin of equivocation.

91 posted on 10/23/2006 11:41:46 PM PDT by Virginia-American (Don't bring a comic book to an encyclopedia fight)
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