----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> To: "Jeff Gibbons" <Log0n5150 at hotmail.com> Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:42 PM Subject: Re: Hello, I'd like to have an argument (was Re: duh!) > Nope. Same definition. Definition one in particular. > Ah. You know, the difficulty of arguing via email is that not only does time pass between volleys, but that others interject new points, and the tangents change. We started on the nature of the English language, then to the nature of an argument, to the definition of a contradiction. If we had reversed the last two, we would have followed the same progression as a rather famous Monty Python skit. Jeff