In a message dated 2/20/10 11:17:59 AM, [email protected] writes:
> I think you're both wrong and greatly suffering from hubris-fever. > Aw, shoot, William -- you shouldn't do that. 'Hubris': "Overbearing pride, presumption, arrogance." It's counterproductive and wrongheaded to cry "Hubris!" when someone detects in the likes of Berger an intellectual weakness and a potential to waste our time. I'm sure in your day you've quit books early on for those very reasons. I certainly don't feel pride when I detect and point out a faulty polemic posture -- as I'm doing in this very posting. There is something to the old quote that goes, "It's only arrogance when you're wrong."
