Re: Definition of "rich"?

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:46:08 -0500, Robert Kolker
<nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

royls@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

No, stupid. It is self-evident that the sky is blue.

It is not self evident to a color blind person.

Yes, actually, it is. Stupid.

And the actual
measurement of the frequency requires an complicated apparatus.

<yawn> The sky was self-evidently blue before any such measurement
was possible, stupid.

Secondly, I am looking at the sky right now. It is grey.

Equivocation. You know I meant the daytime sky that is not obscured
by clouds.

At night the
sky is not blue. Do you know why? I bet you don't.

You lose. Everything you say is wrong, so that had to be wrong, too,
and it is.

Anything that can be known just by looking is self-evident.

No. A check has to made to see that the senses are not spoofed.

No, stupid. If the senses are being spoofed, the fact is not
self-evident.

Have you
ever seen the Ames Room Illusion? Just looking is not sufficient. There
are thousands of optical illusions which prove that just looking is not
sufficient.

If just looking is not sufficient, the fact is not self-evident,
stupid.

You confuse skepticism with willful blindness, you foolish man.

Skepticism is just another name for being careful and thorough,
something which you are not.

See above, stupid.

-- Roy L
.

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