RE: MD acausal

From: Glenn Bradford (gmbbradford@netscape.net)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 05:55:29 GMT

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    "Erin N." <enoonan@kent.edu> wrote:

    >>===== Original Message From moq_discuss@moq.org =====
    >>Erin,
    >>With regard to my use of quotes, what did you mean by:
    >>"All in the name of confirmation bias"
    >>
    >>Glenn
    >>
    >
    >Glenn,
    >That was just another joke (aka harassment).
    >When I asked you to explain some possible
    >acausal relationships you told me it was confirmation
    >bias. So I was joking --somebody who thinks there
    >is a causal explanation for everything then
    >misusing quotes could be a result from a
    >confirmation bias of this being "crap".

    That's what I thought, but I wanted to check.

    When I wrote 'Thanks for taking a shot at "linear causality"', "linear
    causality" happened to be a quote of something I said, but I quoted
    it not because I felt a need to quote myself, I quoted it because I
    wanted to stress the two words together, as the object of discourse.
    The phrase was coined by me but the words came from your description.
    This is not a misuse of quotes; it comes up often during philosophical discourse and literary analysis. You will have to trust me on this, but
    the upshot is that you are mistaken that it is a scare quote or a sneer
    quote. I don't blame you for making the mistake. However, you could be
    just as mistaken by Pirsig's "possession by the Devil" quote. You think
    the meaning of the quotes is obvious but I think their meaning is
    ambiguous.

    ERIN:
    >e.g. you made Pirsig sound silly by making it
    >appear he was talking about a devil

    I made Pirsig sound silly when I said a conclusion of the MOQ is
    that the devil walks the earth in human form. It's an open question
    in my mind whether Pirsig believes in the devil in some sense.
    Glenn

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