Re: virus: meta-talking

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:48:18 -0800

Jake wrote:

>I don't know where you think that I said or implied that this dislike was
>"exempted in principle from rational criticism". Just because everything
is
>in principle subject to rational criticism, do you think I cannot take a
stand
>on anything?

I have a hard time seeing how the memes <Communication with Other Human Beings is Important> and <Equivocating is Undesirable> can be held together without the obvious conflict the real world imposes.

All communication is an equivocation of one form or another.

-Prof. Tim