Re: Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews

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Obviously I'm sorry for that one then.

dd

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:08:26 -0700, andie nachgeborenen
wrote:

>
>  but it's also
> > quite annoying for us to be magisterially directed
> > to
> > read a 400-page doctoral thesis before we're allowed
> > to
> > have opinions.
>
> That's unfair. The mention of diss occurred in a
> different context, where person who brought the topic
> of social v. natural sciences did so in the broadest
> possible way (saying that there was a big diff), and I
> didn't suggest or even direct that he or anyone read
> my opus, but mentioned its length by way of saying
> that there was a  lot to b esaid about this, most of
> which might be beside the point unless one knew what
> the specific question was; and I invited further
> specific questions to which discussion of that sort
> might be directed. Anyone who made the mistake of
> reading my diss, by the way, hoping for insight into
> the demarcation criterion, would mostly be
> disppointed. Except in an oblique way I don't discuss
> the issue. jks
>
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