[MD] Reading Lessons

[david buchanan]

Ian said:
DMB ... accused me of equivocation and being dismissive again. ... Clearly you don't agree with Marsha on "the reification issue" ... you are making an issue of it. I said as far as I could see, you agree what it (reification) is for practical purposes. 

Ian said previously:
My perspective .... you, DMB and Marsha actually agree on this subject - what reification is for practical purposes - where you differ is in attitiude to presumed motivations for arguing. IMHO natch.


dmb says:
First you say that Marsha and I actually agree and then you say that I clearly don's agree with Marsha. That's equivocation. The only real difference, you say, is attitude and motives. That's dismissive. You do it even while you deny that you're doing it and it's a bunch of drivel in the first place. I think Marsha's position is illogical and immoral. I'm disgusted by it and so naturally I'm offended by your equating it with my view. And if you don't mind, philosophers take different views of truth and those views are distinguishable from each other. And if you don't mind, I think truth is something that matters very much every day.