Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:55:44 +0000

In message <1yC%d.14949$Fy.3498@okepread04>, Albert Wagner
<albertwagner@cox.net> writes
>Richard Herring wrote:
>> In message <UHB%d.14946$Fy.12597@okepread04>, Albert Wagner
>><albertwagner@cox.net> writes
>>
>>> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Yeah, gee, it's not like I actually expected an answer. Trolls are
>>>>trolls, after all.
>>>>
>>> Quit crossposting to philosophy NGs, and prove thereby that *you*
>>>are not the troll.
>> Isn't he just following up to Zick's choice of crossposted
>>newsgroups?
>>
>The conversation has wandered far afield of Zick's topic.

I defer to your superior knowledge. Most people here haven't a clue what
his topic was in the first place, still less what it has mutated into.

> Since when does anyone on sci.math feel obligated to go with anyone
>else's opinion as to who should be crossposted?

It's usually done as a courtesy to the audience, since one doesn't know
which groups they are following. To be sure, in this particular case it
would probably be a greater courtesy to stop posting at all.

>Or is that willingness to go with the flow just endemic to
>mathematikers who can't think for themselves?

I wouldn't know. What's a "mathematiker"? 

-- 
Richard Herring

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