# Realists versus Nominalists *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Jun 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Duffy *16 Jun 1998, 01:31* > --------------- MESSAGE urth.v013.n009.6 --------------- > > From: "Robert Borski" > Subject: alga vs. Robert Borski > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:11:54 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> What's your Vironese name? > I made a deal with you, alga, and I intend to honor it. But I also feel the > need to speak up for the many subscribers of this list who still continue > to use their real names. You may fault them ( and me)... I am reminded of _The Thurb Revolution_ where the differences between Realists and Nominalists is discussed. WRT Dante, I have previously commented on the quote from Shea's Inferno (he never got around to the other places...) in UotNS. ---