Father Inire guises

Jeff Wilson · 05 Jul 2008, 22:24 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:24:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) Father Inire guises
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Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wroted and quote:
>>>> And why would Inire spend years trolling alone, again?
>>> Jeff if you are trying to make argments for why Dorcas' husband might not
>>> be  Father Inire you are breaking down an open door. I agree, he might
> not
>>>  be. But I think he could be.   If you are trying to argue he couldn't
> possibly
>>> be, that's a different story and you'll need more definitive proof,  I
> think.
>> Okay, you have no explanation to back up your earlier supposition then.
> 
> That doesn't matter. He cannot be proved wrong. In this school of
> theorizing, whatever a character (particularly a character who is more than
> one character) says that seems to support a given theory is to be accepted
> as true. Whatever that character (or characters) says that is inconvenient
> to or contradicts that theory can be safely dismissed as a lie. Very simple,
> very neat.

That's okay. To be unconvincingly correct is not usefully different than 
being wrong, and may actually be counterproductive by helping discredit 
the right answer.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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