Steve Holden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > >>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>>>Maybe Python attracts people who share that belief. After all, TRTFTJ > >>>>is implies TSBOOWTDI, and vice versa. > >>> > >>>I was not talking about the believe, I was talking about the way you > >>>presented it. You are setting up an "imaginary" me, which is not me. > >>>And that is the kind of arguments I saw, I believe this many times are > >>>done unconciously. > >> > >>You're doing that yourself. But we don't have a real other person to > >>work with - the best we can do is work with our model of that other > >>person. That's life. > >> > > > > In what way am I doing it myself ? It could be unconciously too but I > > always welcome if it could be pointed out. > > > I think Mike (the Mike I imagine, anyway) merely intended to point out > that since we can't live in each others' heads all communication is with > an imaginary person, whose actual thoughts and feelings are unavailable > to us. > If that is the case, it is quite different from saying "you are the one who wants to use a hammer on a screw", but without further clarification, I would leave it.
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