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Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
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Date: 
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:29:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > 
> > John, your equivocation (or misprision, if you prefer) hinges on two distinct
> > definitions of potential.
> 
> I believe Richard's straw term is the actual equivocation here (particularily
> when he snips the entire post to which he is responding). Further, Larry never
> used this word in the first place; is not even synonymous with his intended
> meaning.  Since there wasn't any valid context of RM's post, my choice of
> definition is just as valid as any.  And I am going to take your word on the
> illustration of roasted Dave!

Perhaps RM erred in such a large snip, but I immediately took his comment to
refer to:

> c) prepared to discuss how likely it is that " more importantly, that
> they're likely to deliver to their citizens in future." is true (the second
> part of my metric) about Canada. It's not enough to be ahead at the moment.

which seems to be investigating the potential of a country to deliver
[quality of life] to it's citizens, as a metric for superiority. No doubt
I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but it seems to fit better than any
reference to nuclear fission.

ROSCO



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  Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
 
(...) Larry is talking about the probability a country will continue to deliver. I'm not really interested in debating semantics, but potential and probability have different meanings. At least my reference was to the same word. JOHN (24 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
 
(...) I believe Richard's straw term is the actual equivocation here (particularily when he snips the entire post to which he is responding). Further, Larry never used this word in the first place; is not even synonymous with his intended meaning. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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