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From: matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find'
Date: Sun,  6 Jul 2003 23:20:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F08A0C3.6050801@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307051838.h65Icn704965@augusta.math.psu.edu>

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>>err, this *does* beg the question; what's wrong with `grep pattern foo'?
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Sorry to be pedantic it would raise the question not beg it.

Begging the question is another name for a circular argument

A is true because B is true, and B is true because A is true.

Besides which, it doesn't do either  8)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-06 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-29 16:57 D. Brownlee
2003-06-29 16:59 ` Sape Mullender
2003-06-30 14:07   ` rog
2003-06-30 14:18     ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-30 14:50       ` rog
2003-07-03  9:42         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-03 10:03           ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-07-03 15:14             ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-03 12:57           ` matt
2003-07-03 16:59             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-03 17:09               ` matt
2003-06-30 15:30       ` Dan Cross
2003-07-03 12:11     ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-06-29 18:11 ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-29 18:42   ` Dan Cross
2003-07-04 14:08   ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-07-05 18:38     ` Dan Cross
2003-07-06  3:11       ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-07  8:33         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-07 10:49           ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-07 14:05             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-07 15:46           ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-07 19:18             ` Dan Cross
2003-07-07 19:26               ` David Presotto
2003-07-07 19:46                 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-07 19:08           ` Dan Cross
2003-07-07 19:21             ` Dan Cross
2003-07-08  8:31               ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-08 11:20                 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-06 16:12       ` Jack Johnson
2003-07-06 22:20       ` matt [this message]
2003-07-07 13:28       ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-07-07 19:13         ` Dan Cross
2003-06-30  7:47 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-06-30  7:55   ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-30 14:32 ` Dan Cross

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