Re: open letter to the Google company, on the value of the scientific groups

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:48:34 -0700 (PDT): Franz Gnaedinger
<frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

On Sep 25, 10:13 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The etcetera is shorthand, given that by now I don't feel at this point
that I have to recite the entire litany all over again, the beginning of
each sentence serving as a reminder that your making your assertion is
no different from me making my assertions, Rudyard Kipling making his
richly detailed ad hoc assertions (but which he, at least, recognized,
as fiction), etcetera.

But-you-still-have-not-gi-ven-an-y-e-vi-dence
for-Ma-rie-An-toi-nette-ha-ving-ea-ten-quail
on-the-third-e-ve-ning-be-fore-her-se-ven-
teenth-birth-day.

That's because he can't, nobody can and nobody ever will. But the
absence of such evidence, nor of any falsification of the fantasy
statement about what she ate that night, makes it any more proven or
disproven.

Because we simply DO NOT KNOW.

That is just the point. Why do I have to explain that?

--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.eu
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