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John: > And Rosta scripsit: > > > I agree. Argument with you is futile. Consequently if you keep trying > > to participate in arguments then any sort of collaboration with you > > on Lojban is futile > > Not at all > > If lojbab couldn't be convinced by any means whatever, then collab > would be futile, but he can be -- by the consensus of opinions > So the right thing to do with a lojbab posting is not to argue back, > but to (in Smullyan's phrase) "try to see in what sense he may be right" > There's often a lot of value in it I am aware from experience elsewhere in life, that this is one of my blindspots. So I had better watch you and see if I can learn how it is done. I do know that sometimes Lojbab's ideas are good. But usually by the time I get to them I am too dismissive or too apoplectic to notice. --And.