In Reply to: Then you reject all knowledge that you didn't develop yourse.f posted by jj on April 28, 2003 at 14:26:09:
As opposed to a personal attack..."Consider the number of appalling, offensive things that you've said."
What did I say that was offensive? (I really don't care if you think what I state is "apalling.")
"First, you're outright accusing me of trying to pawn off something irrelevant."
I will not even deny that. Although I do think it is unintentional.
The problem is you keep telling people to "read the literature," but more-often than not, the literature you reference turns out to be either irrelevant or obsolete. I sometimes get the impression you tell people to "read the literature" because you are not confident in explaining the subject matter in your own words. But I do not want to speculate further.
Have you ever wondered why I think Nyquist's theorem is flawed?? I would *not* have come to that conclusion had I merely "read literature."
"Second, if you ONLY accept first-hand experience, you can't learn anymore than you can discover youself in your own life. That is rather limiting."
If I tried learning everything from a book, I would be flipping hamburgers for a living. And have an audio system with products based solely on others' recommendations.
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Follow Ups
- I Hope You Take This as Constructive Criticism... - Todd Krieger 04/28/0319:51:26 04/28/03 (7)
- Retract that, and get your head out of the sand. - jj 19:22:28 04/29/03 (3)
- Man, What a Predikamunt... - Todd Krieger 22:28:58 04/29/03 (2)
- Oh, go ahead. You're playing to the crowd anyhow.... - jj 22:36:20 04/29/03 (1)
- OK, I'm Playing to the Crowd... - Todd Krieger 23:00:56 04/29/03 (0)
- Re: I Hope You Take This as Constructive Criticism... - cheap-Jack 09:55:11 04/29/03 (2)
- You are a malicious, stalking sock-puppet. - jj 19:08:47 04/29/03 (1)
- Re: You are a malicious, stalking sock-puppet. - cheap-Jack 13:49:16 04/30/03 (0)