[lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

[Carrol Cox]

This rehearsal of banalities which no one would disagree with is
illustrative of the impossibility of conversation (as opposed to point
scoffing) on lb-talk.

Carrol

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On Behalf Of // ravi
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
>> On 2/16/2012 10:18 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>>> Absolutely. For one thing, you have to struggle with reality...rather
than just manipulating symbols.
>> 
>> Any good writer constantly struggles with reality...by manipulating
symbols.  (What is Capital Vol. 1?  Chopped liver?)
> 
> Really. To appreciate manual labor we don't have to disparage the mental
kind.

What is disparaging about manipulating symbols? What are logicians and
theoretical mathematicians? Chopped liver? :-)

	-ravi

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