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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Constant Reader who wrote (38625)7/29/2005 10:43:37 AM
From: MulhollandDrive  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
Unfortunately, the interests of effective communication are not well-served when the people having the conversation discover half way through that generally accepted definitions of common terms are not applicable to your comments, as has happened recently.

first of all, do not necessarily assume effective communication is the goal here...

witness the liberal usage of:

"fine"

"ok"

"thanks for sharing"

:)

but specifically to your point, the inability to agree to accepted definitions of words leads, imo, inability to construct logical arguments and ultimately to what is called 'reductio ad absurdum'

a worthless exercise
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