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From: ewe3_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Erdman West)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Searle and Radical Translation
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Date: 9 Aug 90 22:11:31 GMT
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In article <620@ntpdvp1.UUCP> kenp@ntpdvp1.UUCP (Ken Presting) writes:
>I hope that you can now agree that this is both obvious and trivial.

Excuse me, but I really hate it when someone feels the need to be superior
and express to the world how awesome his mind is so much so that he has to
point out "obvious" and "trivial" things to other peons.  If they were
obvious and trivial then you wouldn't be pointing them out, so since they're
not, then don't say that.  It makes you sound smug and superior and just
injects a sense of a battle with the outcome determining some kind of
winner.  We are not here to show who's "the best, the brightest", but to
find excellent ideas and well constructed arguements and clear points.  I
post this to the net and not through e-mail to Ken only because this type of
attitude is displayed here all too often.

Scott West 
"A good idea doesn't care who has it, and neither should you."