Re: The candidates' musical tastes

Matthew B. Tepper wrote:
"Gerard" <ghen_nospam_driksen@xxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed in
news:48cbf9e5$0$5890$dbd45001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Allen wrote:
Gerard wrote:
Allen wrote:
Gerard wrote:
Kip Williams wrote:
Gerard wrote:
Allen wrote:

Great quote! Would you share the source with us? I
have often said that I can't trust anyone who doesn't
like any sort of music, as it shows a complete lack
of imagination.

So you trust everyone who likes any sort of music?

That doesn't logically follow from his statement. It's
not a valid conversion from "no A is B" to "all non-A is
B." (Where A is "non-musiclovers" and B is "trustworthy")

"You can't jump up and down on thin ice" doesn't mean you
can do so on any and everything that is not thin ice, for
instance.

Kip W

It was a question.
And it is implicated in his statement.
Not everything is only "logic".

First, thank you, Kip; you beat me to it.
Now, for Gerard: reread my post. There is a question in it,
but that question asked Graham if he would share the source.
The rest was a simple statement--no question in it
whatsoever. Please do not act like ansermaniac.
Allen

O, pardon, sir.
There was a question.
I asked: "So you trust everyone who likes any sort of music?"
You don't know what a question is?

Goodbye, Gerard. You are a hopeless case.
Allen

Doej.
Sorry that I asked "You don't know what a question is?" - that was a
question.

I recall a computer program called LISA back in the early 1970s which
was able to hold "conversations" with a human operator, but which all
too often gave a response similar to the one you just gave.

Human operator: How are you feeling today?

LISA: Why do you ask how are you feeling.

Operator: Because I want to know, dammit!

LISA: Tell me more about this I want to know dammit.

Operator: You are not making any sense!

LISA: Do you think I should be making any sense?

And so on. LISA would pass the Turing Test. You ... I'm not so sure.

Let's not talk about you.


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