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To: DMaA who wrote (204363)	4/27/2007 11:15:36 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793999

I got into it because others used the opportunity of Ms. Crow's "joke" to personally criticize people who took note of it and giggled. It's funny how we get into these discussions. I got into it strictly to criticize the belief with certainty that she wasn't joking given that we have no basis for certainty. Unwarranted belief with certainty is a hobby horse of mine. Of course, once you get into a discussion, it goes off in myriad directions and original point get lost or distorted. I suppose that people inclined to believe with certainty that which cannot be determined with certainty are simply not the sort who are receptive to logical arguments on the subject. Very rarely have I been been able to get a concession that "she wasn't joking," for example, could and should be more accurately and fairly expressed as "it's unlikely that she joking" or "it didn't seem to me that she was joking," or "I don't believe that she was joking." I continue to find that particular logical fallacy interesting, perplexing, and somewhat disturbing. So I'm easily sucked in as I was this time.