In a message dated 11/1/08 12:18:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Cheerskep: Sure. Setting up more smoke screen, I can see. You'll be able to > shoot down all offerings. > Geoff, you're a psychologist. You have to know how much the possibility of progress between disputants (e.g. a man and wife, or Palin and her critics) is hampered when, instead of addressing what the first guy has just said, the second guy dismissively imputes a despicable motive to the first guy. You're diametrically wrong to suggest I want to throw up a smoke screen. My aim is consistently to blow smoke away. And you're also very wrong if you think my motivation on the forum is a delight I get from "shooting down all offerings". It isn't. I wish gummed-up offerings never hit the forum in the first place. Look back at the assertions you yourself have taken exception to on the forum. Were you doing that solely for the satisfaction of shooting something down? Besides, if you to tell us what you have in mind when you use the word 'certainty', unless the notion has blatant internal inconsistencies, no one can prove you "wrong". And at the very least it will give us a better idea what you're talking about. I confess that often when I've examined closely some notion I've been entertaining, only then did I discover how fuzzy it was. *** I had written: The word 'certainty' is now being used on the forum by folks who have not described their notion when they use the word. Try describing it, gang. You won't find it easy. The reasons for describing what you have in mind are, first, that, without making your notion serviceably clear, you may be talking past each other -- i.e. each has a different idea of what's at issue. Second, you may discover your unexamined notion is fatally fuzzy. Still, when you use the word, you tend to think you have a serviceably clear notion in mind, so take why not a shot at it? ************** Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212416248x1200771803/aol?redir=http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001)
