Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19991004202815.00739424@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 20:28:15 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: RE: Scholarly credibility
In-Reply-To: <001f01bf0e9d$72dfff00$fdb606d1@sbosmr.ma.cable.rcn.com>
At 03:19 PM 10/4/99 -0400, Aaron Agassi wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
>> Of Aaron Lynch
>> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 2:56 PM
>> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>> Subject: RE: Scholarly credibility
>>
>>
>> At 01:00 PM 10/4/99 -0400, Aaron Agassi wrote:
>> >Okay, to my relief, I definitely am not the Aaron in question.
>>
>> Indeed, you are not.
>>
>> Perhaps the Paul in question could further repair his scholarly
>> credibility
>> by looking up the word "argumeny" while he is in the library. I
>> do not find
>> it in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, or in any other
>> dictionary I have tried. Under the circumstances, a definition
>> and a source
>> for the word should be given when saying that my book contains
>> "argumeny."
>>
>>
>Perhaps a fusion of 'argument' and 'agony'?
If there's agony, it would be on the part of Marsden's readers, many whom
may be mislead to think that "argumeny" is so esoteric a word that they
have never encountered it before. An intended effect? A fake word for a
fake "review"? I don't know. I think we should just let Marsden go to the
library and look it up for us, then report back with a definition and a
source for that definition. Especially since the "review" claims that it is
I who fail to define terms. (More about the last point in my upcoming
rebuttal--these points about "argumeny" and the references section are just
some of the items for which I given insufficient space to reply in my
rebuttal.)
For scholarly credibility to hold, the definition and source must pre-date
the "review," so there is no point putting definitions or derivations in
his mouth.
--Aaron Lynch
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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