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  Re: OK, who else has had this IRL?  
From: Rune
Date: 1 Feb 2008 07:20:26
Message: <47a30e8a$1@news.povray.org>
"Mike the Elder" wrote:
> When someone claims to be a programmer, one can reply, "O.K., let's run 
> that
> program you've written and see how it works."  Any attempt to demonstrate 
> that
> a claim to being a philosopher is bogus tends to degenerate into a Monty 
> Python
> routine:
> "That's not a philosophical argument."
> "Yes it is."
> "No, it isn't. A philosophical argument is a logically connected series of
> statements intended to establish a proposition, not just the random 
> explication
> of one's subjective impressions or opinions."
> "No it isn't." ...

I found it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-572077907195969915

Rune
-- 
http://runevision.com


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