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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Social Construction of Reality
Message-ID: <1332@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 88 10:52:20 GMT
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Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
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In article <450001@hplsdar.HP.COM> jdg@hplsdar.HP.COM (Jason Goldman) writes:
>Ad Hominem
Et alia sunt?

When people adopt a controversial position for which there is no convincing 
proof, the only scientific explanation is the individual's ideology.  The 
dislike of ad hominem arguments among scientists is a sign of their self-imposed
dualism: personality and the environment stop outside the cranium of
scientists, but penetrate the crania of everyone else.

Odi profanum vulgum, et arceo ...
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science,  The University, Glasgow
	gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs <europe>!ukc!glasgow!gilbert

	     The proper object of the study of humanity is humans, not machines