Re: SUO: Dominant In Their Own Mind Philosophers (DITOMP's)
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:02:25PM -0400, Jon Awbrey wrote:
> John,
>
> Welcome to the club of idiosyntactic thinkers.
I'm sure John will be thrilled at the implication that he is a fellow
pea in your pod. While there are indeed distinctively idiosyncratic
elements to John's approach, unlike you:
* He provides genuine, well-informed arguments when he fulminates
against received views in logic;
* He provides genuine arguments for the advantages of the distinctive
elements of his approach;
* He goes to considerable lengths to show exactly the formal
equivalence of his approach to more familiar frameworks.
> I can only be thankful that CM has decided to pick on somebody his own
> weight.
Odd that you would see my challenging John -- with whom I've worked and
argued for at least a dozen years, often to our mutual benefit -- on
this rather trivial point of terminology as "picking on" him. I can
assure you that would not be his own impression. It strikes me that it
says something about how you process strongly reasoned challenges to
your own views. It's not about winning, losing, or scoring points, Jon.
Chris Menzel