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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (35738)4/24/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Blue, on this point I think you are 100% right.

I agree that what you speak of is, of course, ideal. It may even be common. I suggest that it is far more common in fields where facts may be verified independently, and far less common in others.

It demonstrates that your own point of view has evolved since you wrote this:

>>>>>Any scholar/thinker/scientist/etc. worth his salt retains a healthy skepticism about his own findings/discoveries/hypotheses, and has enough humility to recognize that his word will not be the last on the subject<<<<<

Never met one of these birds. Let me say that my father went to college when I was a child, my mother when I was a teenager, and I started college in 1972 and finished in 1988, going part-time for my BA. I've got a J.D. and an LL.M. My husband has a BS and a M.Pub.H. I have known many a Ph.D. in my day. And I've never met one of these birds.
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