Scheme as a virtual machine?

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2010-11-25 11:30:12 -0500, Mario S. Mommer said:

> In the realm of pure logic, ad hominems are logically invalid,
> period.

We don't live in the realm of pure logic (whatever that would mean - 
pretty sure no human beings exist in the realm of pure logic, so there 
is no homo hominis to make an ad hominem argument against in the land 
of pure logic...)

Here in the real world, no amount of the rigid application of pure 
logic is going to substitute for the very necessary social skill of 
inferring the motives of a participant to a debate.

Again, not all ad hominem arguments are ad hominem fallacies. JH has 
repeatedly trumpeted the virtues of languages whose adoption by others 
brings him financial gain, and repeatedly made pejorative statements 
about other languages in newsgroups for these other langauges, in a 
clear attempt to drum up clients for his training consultancy.

Pure logic alone won't help you here; the ordinary human social skill 
of inferring a person's motives does.

warmest regards,

Ralph


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Raffael Cavallaro