Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2005/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Expectations for professionals
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:23:15 -0500

On 1 Mar, Tom Flavel <tom@-----.net> wrote:

> On 01/03/2005 15:01:59, Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > On 1 Mar, "Vann Joe Turner" <medpen@-----.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Tony, if I'd written the gobbledegook that you did for the Cambridge
> > > Companion, I'd be ashamed.
> >
> > Care to say why?
>
> I think part of his point involves that you skip that which you are
> unable to exert superiority over, and head for the few specific comments
> you can make use of, by argumentum ad hominem or otherwise.

OK, I understand that that's what you make of the sum total of my posts.
Argumentum ad hominem as a default, and then otherwise.

> I assume this behaviour is an attempt to make all of his (or whoever's)
> points appear ill-founded because of one unrelated comment.

I just wanted to focus on a comment that I might be able to answer.

I cannot defend myself against the charge that I don't have a clue how the
human heart works, or the charge that I played a performance that he found
deficient. In fact have to say that -- of course -- I found that performance
deficient myself.

Instead, I ask: what is 'gobbledegook' in what I wrote in the Cambridge
Companion?

We might even have a productive discussion.

Tony
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