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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Social Construction of Reality
Keywords: reality, concensus
Message-ID: <532@white.gcm>
Date: 15 Jun 88 15:39:28 GMT
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Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <514@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> simon@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Simon Brooke) writes [. . .]:
.Wells, like fanatical adherents of other ideologies before him, first
.hurls abuse at his opponents, and finally, defeated, closes his ears. I
.note that he is in industry and not an academic; nevertheless he is
.posting into the ai news group, and must therefore be considered part of
.the American AI community. I haven't visited the States; I wonder if
.someone could tell me whether this extraordinary combination of ignorance
.and arrogance is frequently encountered in American intellectual life?

Yes it is extremely common, and not just within the AI community.


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Dave Caswell
Greenwich Capital Markets                             uunet!philabs!gcm!dc
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