Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:51:31 -0000 (UTC), Antonio Marques
<no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field
he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong.
 

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People desperately tried to jump on every unqualified statement of his for
some interpretation that would make him 'wrong'. What almost everyone does
is raise an objection to that course of action, but he consistently chose
to ignore that path, which in a way makes the other feel not acknowledged
as an interlocutor. That caused a huge amount of resentment, but who is to
blame? The answer depends on the degree of good faith on the part of those
trying to 'correct' him.

In my experience it was the other way round.

He would pronounce that something someone else had said was wrong,
when it wasn't and continue to insist on it even when several people
had produced evbidence that it was true.


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