- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:01:59 +0000
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: www-archive@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote : > This is an example of why it is a terrible idea to encourage people to > accuse each other of fallacious arguments. We are now debating the > definition of "strawman" and what is and isn't a strawman argument, > instead of any point of substance. That was exactly the point I was trying to make in my e-mail to yourself, Sam and Leif [1]. I am glad to see that, once again, we appear to agree on something that may well be important :-) Philip TAYLOR -------- [1] > Might I venture to suggest that Sam's proposed > embargo on certain forms of rhetoric will never > (and can never) be successful if reference (either > implicit or explicit) to those forms of rhetoric > continues to form any part of future debate on > this list. > If, instead, we concentrate solely on the many > substantive (technical and practical) issues > which confront us, then real progress might be made. > > Philip TAYLOR
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