Matthew Collett <m_coll...@ihug.co.nz> writes:
> On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 am, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter
>> it does not exactly overwhelm.
>
> I have always understood it to be good netiquette only to quote
> exactly what one is replying to.
The point of trimming the original is to remove parts _irrelevant_ to
your reply, not those that would have been _relevant_.
>> #1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}.
>
> Shorter, obviously. More elegant, I agree. But conceptually, more
> abstract and therefore more difficult; 'deeper', in the sense a
> mathematician would use the term.
Would you say that nouns are more abstract than verbs, and therefore
more difficult?
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David Kastrup
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