From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Terminology and Quantification (was Re: Meme Machine reviewedinScience)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:56:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <441c8c98.24c4625a@aol.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of JakeSapien@aol.com
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 7:14 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Terminology and Quantification (was Re: Meme Machine
> reviewedinScience)
>
>
> In a message dated 7/19/1999 3:25:55 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
> agassi@erols.com
> writes:
>
> >> Though I
> > think he would as excited as any of us would be to see that
> > actually happen,
> > I wouldn't expect him or any professional philosopher to lead the
> > charge.
> > That's for people like you, Aaron.
> Ad hominem! <<
>
> Excuse me????? I simply don't see anything here that resembles an ad
> hominem. I must be missing something.
Dennett's motives where impugned. His not supporting the prospects for
Memetics as a fully realized Science, are attributed to professional
opportunism and cowardice as a philosopher, and not any remotely Epistemic
criteria. Then, by implication, I get dragged in by association.
>
> -JS
>
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