From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 12:32:11 CDT
Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net):
> Why are you so gratuitously rude ?
I give as good as I get?
>It is dangerous to have two normative pieces of text that address the
>same area.
I agree, but that isn't what you said the first time. You said "say the
same thing", not "address the same area." There is a big difference
between the two. You've wasted a lot of time changing what you said and
them pretending that I didn't understand it the first time, when the truth
is you don't understand what you said yourself.
> Note that "disagree" is not the same thing as "don't say the same
> thing".
The statement under question did not say "don't say the same thing", it
said "say the same thing." By definition, if two things say the same
thing, they agree. They cannot say the same thing and disagree. Your
warning that having two sections of text that say the same thing is bad
because they might disagree is patently absurd. It's the same as saying
that it is bad to have two cars that are red because one of them might be
blue.
> What is hard to understand about this ?
I find it gratuitously rude for you to try changing what you said in the
first place to something that now makes sense and then to make such snide
comments like this, as if what you said in the first place was sensible.