Re: skinny runners


Lee Olsen wrote:
> JAE wrote:
> > Lee, you're arguing with someone singularly immune to reason. You're
> > arguing with someone whose reasoning resembles that found in
> > psychiatric lockdown. Marc will continue to insist that you prove a
> > negative, will continue to insist that he has "comparative evidence"
> > that "proves" his position and that you've still not got "one arguement
> > against" it. No appeals to reason (e.g. asking him to explain and
> > defend this supposed comparative evidence, confronting him with the
> > fact that his defense is a request to prove a negative, providing
> > several arguments against the superbly nebulous 'scenario' he's
> > supposedly advocating) will ever change this. I suspect you know this
> > and I suspect you're just having fun at his expense or hope to at least
> > dissuade those seemingly susceptible to his contagious illogic, but
> > just in case you actually thought Marc could change his mind, he can't
> > or won't.
>
> And Algis? :-)

Algis displays many if not all of Marc's reasoning, true. He's apt to
demand that someone prove a negative, regularly insists that assertions
are evidence, and has an unwarranted fascination with the nebulous.
Assuming that he's actually doing anything in the degree program he
says he's in though, Algis is at least making an overture towards
learning something. Marc makes the claim that his ideas are somehow
proven. Algis acts very much like his assertions have been proven but
seems to hesitate with the grand pronouncements that Marc seems to have
no problems making. Algis is woefully under-educated in many areas
completely germane to what he's trying to put together though seems not
to appreciate these handicaps and proceeds as if his understanding was
sufficient theoretical basis to proceed with his "studies." Marc's
just insane.

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