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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.sci
Subject: Re: Needless
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 20:14:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 20:14:18 1986
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Summary: Did you never try to complete an argument with holes?

I really can't totally agree with this (though, as many have
pointed out, there is some truth to it).  To have an argument
or proof complete, one must sometimes make statements which
in hindsight are obvious.  Obviously, one does not wish to
insult his or her audience's intelligence.  (But you weren't
thinking that before you read it!)  Therefore, to mitigate
any impatience the learned reader may express, with thoughts
like "Well, of course!"; or "How obvious / trite / etc.", the
writer will, of course, enter some such phrase.
-- 

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)