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Panda
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Message 22 of 31 (616408)
05-21-2011 4:32 PM


And now we see nwr doing his usual trick of "nwr's special equivocation", where he makes up new meanings for commonly used words and then completely refuses to explain what he means.
Today's words are:
completely mechanical
conventional wisdom
accurate
conventions
orbit
theory laden
If you are lucky he may say:
"Go read this book, it describes what I mean."
"...Oh! Did I forget to mention it is 900 pages long? Well, the definition is in there somewhere..."
Good luck with that, Straggler.
Edited by Panda, : No reason given.

  
Panda
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Message 25 of 31 (616440)
05-22-2011 6:52 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by nwr
05-21-2011 9:18 PM


Re: Mars Orbiting Earth.....?
Alice writes:
Humpty Dumpty writes:
The meaning of the word "orbit" comes from usage conventions. And those usage conventions are partly from scientific usage.
The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.

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