• Re: Richard Damon: learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks

    From Alan Mackenzie@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 19:57:26 2025
    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of computation
    theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad hominem attacks;
    each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a response to falsehoods, delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this is a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to
    see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young child
    going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this newsgroup
    really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's studied the
    subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for continually
    opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    --
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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 20 19:26:55 2025
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 19:36:42 2025
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:26:55 +0000, Mr Flibble wrote:

    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble

    rote*

    /Flibble

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  • From Alan Mackenzie@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 20:53:53 2025
    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks --
    he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad
    hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a
    response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this is
    a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to >>>> see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young
    child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got
    special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is
    continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my
    view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for
    continually opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for
    all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these
    that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is a good
    thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem
    attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute an ad hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you are using."

    I recognise those words, yes. They are not an ad hominem attack, they
    are the simple truth. Peter Olcott's (possibly deliberate)
    misunderstanding of technical words and phrases is at the root of much of
    the "debate" in this newsgroup, hence highly pertinent to the discussion. Drawing attention to it is NOT an ad hominem attack. Neither is calling somebody stupid or a liar, provided it is not being used to prevent
    discussion of the substace.

    /Flibble

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Alan Mackenzie on Sun Jul 20 20:39:53 2025
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks --
    he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad
    hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a
    response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this is
    a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to
    see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young
    child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got
    special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is
    continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my
    view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for
    continually opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for
    all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these
    that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is a good
    thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem
    attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute an ad hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you are
    using."

    /Flibble

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Alan Mackenzie on Sun Jul 20 20:22:44 2025
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending
    arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad hominem attacks;
    each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a response to falsehoods, delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with eachother
    with little to chose between them. As already said this is a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to
    see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young child
    going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's studied the
    subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for continually
    opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for all to see
    that he does so regularly.

    /Flibble

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  • From Alan Mackenzie@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 20:37:11 2025
    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending
    arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of computation
    theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad hominem attacks;
    each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with eachother
    with little to chose between them. As already said this is a mistaken
    impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to
    see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young child
    going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got special
    knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is continually
    reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my view) drawing
    attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this newsgroup
    really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's studied the
    subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for continually
    opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for all to see
    that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these that
    PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is a good thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem attack.

    /Flibble

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Alan Mackenzie on Sun Jul 20 20:56:11 2025
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:53:53 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- >>>>>> he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad
    hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a
    response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this
    is a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able
    to see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young >>>>> child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got >>>>> special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is
    continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my >>>>> view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for
    continually opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for
    all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these
    that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is a good
    thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem
    attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute an
    ad hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you are
    using."

    I recognise those words, yes. They are not an ad hominem attack, they
    are the simple truth. Peter Olcott's (possibly deliberate)
    misunderstanding of technical words and phrases is at the root of much
    of the "debate" in this newsgroup, hence highly pertinent to the
    discussion.
    Drawing attention to it is NOT an ad hominem attack. Neither is calling somebody stupid or a liar, provided it is not being used to prevent discussion of the substace.

    False. They are an ad hominem attack, a logical fallacy.

    /Flibble

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 18:04:49 2025
    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is talking
    about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past tense of write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning style is NOT
    based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis principles and
    how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things is
    not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and just needs
    to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF* they are willing
    to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic principles,
    tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good when writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully grounded in the
    base of the system, something it seems neither you or Olcott understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based on
    wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning of
    ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis, showing
    where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and only then use
    the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency of the speaker.
    Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason to claim the
    argument is wrong is because of something about the person.

    All you are doing is proving that you are just as bad at knowing what
    you are talkinga about as Peter, and since you have chosen to hide your
    real identity, that you are really just a TROLL, and your comments
    meaningless.

    Real people stand by their words, cowards hide behind pseudonyms.

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  • From olcott@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 17:55:14 2025
    On 7/20/2025 3:39 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks --
    he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad
    hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a
    response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this is
    a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to >>>> see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young
    child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got
    special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is
    continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my
    view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for
    continually opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for
    all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these
    that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is a good
    thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem
    attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute an ad hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you are using."

    /Flibble

    Yet that is correct

    --
    Copyright 2024 Olcott

    "Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
    Genius hits a target no one else can see."
    Arthur Schopenhauer

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Sun Jul 20 18:44:09 2025
    On 7/20/25 4:56 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:53:53 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- >>>>>>> he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad
    hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a
    response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this >>>>>> is a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able >>>>>> to see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like a young >>>>>> child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got >>>>>> special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong. RD is >>>>>> continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my >>>>>> view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much for >>>>>> continually opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for >>>>> all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these
    that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is a good
    thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem
    attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute an
    ad hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you are
    using."

    I recognise those words, yes. They are not an ad hominem attack, they
    are the simple truth. Peter Olcott's (possibly deliberate)
    misunderstanding of technical words and phrases is at the root of much
    of the "debate" in this newsgroup, hence highly pertinent to the
    discussion.
    Drawing attention to it is NOT an ad hominem attack. Neither is calling
    somebody stupid or a liar, provided it is not being used to prevent
    discussion of the substace.

    False. They are an ad hominem attack, a logical fallacy.

    /Flibble


    FALSE. Proving you don't understand the words you used, and by
    apparently INTENTIONALLY editing out the context, just more proof that
    you are just a stupid troll.

    Note, the statement doesn't say the statement is wrong because they were
    said by Peter, but that the words say something wrong, and the likely
    reason he said that is that he doesn't know what the words mean.

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to olcott on Sun Jul 20 20:20:52 2025
    On 7/20/25 6:55 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 7/20/2025 3:39 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- >>>>>> he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong.  Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics.  He doesn't do ad
    hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a
    response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them.  As already said this is >>>>> a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be able to >>>>> see the immense difference between PO and RD.  PO is like a young
    child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5, how he's got >>>>> special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is wrong.  RD is >>>>> continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and (ill-advisedly in my >>>>> view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all.  You can't really blame RD too much for >>>>> continually opposing PO's falsehoods.  RD cares about the truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there for
    all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is.  What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that.  Instead, what he
    does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from these
    that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever.  I don't think this is a good
    thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad hominem
    attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute
    an ad
    hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you are
    using."

    /Flibble

    Yet that is correct


    In other words, you are just agreeing to his mistake, and thus make it yourself.

    Of course, you have proven that you don't know the meaning of many of
    the words.

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  • From Richard Heathfield@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Mon Jul 21 09:17:16 2025
    On 20/07/2025 23:04, Richard Damon wrote:
    Real people stand by their words, cowards hide behind pseudonyms.

    In your country and mine, that can be argued. There are several
    countries around the world, however, in which to post at all
    takes courage, and pseudonyms are the first line of defence
    against the state's retribution.

    (No, I'm not suggesting that this applies to "Mr Flibble". Just
    making the general point.)

    --
    Richard Heathfield
    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
    "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
    Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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  • From Mikko@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Mon Jul 21 12:35:35 2025
    On 2025-07-20 19:26:55 +0000, Mr Flibble said:

    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    It is commonly reagerded as a bad style to put ad hominem attacks to
    the subject line, even when the purpose is trolling.

    --
    Mikko

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Mon Jul 21 16:49:04 2025
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:04:49 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending
    arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is talking
    about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past tense of write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning style is NOT
    based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis principles and
    how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things is
    not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and just needs
    to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF* they are willing
    to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic principles, tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good when writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully grounded in the
    base of the system, something it seems neither you or Olcott understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based on
    wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning of
    ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis, showing
    where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and only then use
    the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency of the speaker.
    Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason to claim the
    argument is wrong is because of something about the person.

    Oh but I do know the meaning of ad hominem, dear, as I pointed out one
    such logical fallacy that you made when trying to debate Olcott (see
    elsewhere in this thread). At this point you are basically lying: not a
    good look, mate.



    All you are doing is proving that you are just as bad at knowing what
    you are talkinga about as Peter, and since you have chosen to hide your
    real identity, that you are really just a TROLL, and your comments meaningless.

    Obviously using a psuedonym does not mean that what I write is
    meaningless: you are not very good at this are you?

    /Flibble

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Mon Jul 21 16:43:51 2025
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:44:09 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 4:56 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:53:53 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:37:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:57:26 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

    Mr Flibble <[email protected]> wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks >>>>>>>> --
    he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the >>>>>>>> neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    You're wrong. Richard Damon has a thorough understanding of
    computation theory and associated mathematics. He doesn't do ad >>>>>>> hominem attacks; each and every slight aimed at Peter Olcott is a >>>>>>> response to falsehoods,
    delusion, and let's be honest, lies too; NOT a response to the
    falsehoods on the basis of who said them.

    I don't like the way RD posts, either; it has given rise to the
    impression that there are two equal louts slugging it out with
    eachother with little to chose between them. As already said this >>>>>>> is a mistaken impression.

    I don't think you have the mathematical education needed to be
    able to see the immense difference between PO and RD. PO is like >>>>>>> a young child going around shouting very loudly that 2 + 2 = 5,
    how he's got special knowledge about it, and how everybody else is >>>>>>> wrong. RD is continually reminding people that 2 + 2 = 4 and
    (ill-advisedly in my view) drawing attention to PO's demerits a
    very great deal.

    The halting theorem, and the proof of it most popular in this
    newsgroup really are at the level of 2 + 2 = 4 to anybody who's
    studied the subject at all. You can't really blame RD too much
    for continually opposing PO's falsehoods. RD cares about the
    truth.

    /Flibble

    You are even less credible than Damon, falsly claiming that Damon
    doesn't indulge in ad hominem attacks when the evidence is there
    for all to see that he does so regularly.

    Perhaps you have a non-standard idea of what an ad hominem attack
    actually is. What it is is "Peter said it, so it must be wrong."
    Richard Damon has never written anything like that. Instead, what
    he does is point out falsehoods in PO's writing, and deduces from
    these that PO must be stupid/a liar/whatever. I don't think this is >>>>> a good thing continually to write, but that doesn't make it an ad
    hominem attack.

    /Flibble

    No I don't. The following are Damon's actual words and do constitute
    an ad hominem attack:

    "Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of the words you
    are using."

    I recognise those words, yes. They are not an ad hominem attack, they
    are the simple truth. Peter Olcott's (possibly deliberate)
    misunderstanding of technical words and phrases is at the root of much
    of the "debate" in this newsgroup, hence highly pertinent to the
    discussion.
    Drawing attention to it is NOT an ad hominem attack. Neither is
    calling somebody stupid or a liar, provided it is not being used to
    prevent discussion of the substace.

    False. They are an ad hominem attack, a logical fallacy.

    /Flibble


    FALSE. Proving you don't understand the words you used, and by
    apparently INTENTIONALLY editing out the context, just more proof that
    you are just a stupid troll.

    Note, the statement doesn't say the statement is wrong because they were
    said by Peter, but that the words say something wrong, and the likely
    reason he said that is that he doesn't know what the words mean.

    You used the word "Your" directed at Olcott. Sorry mate but it was an ad hominem attack, a logical fallacy showing you don't know how to engage in honest, legitimate debate. You can cry about it all you want but that
    won't change the facts: you fucked up.

    /Flibble

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Richard Heathfield on Mon Jul 21 19:15:32 2025
    On 7/21/25 4:17 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    On 20/07/2025 23:04, Richard Damon wrote:
    Real people stand by their words, cowards hide behind pseudonyms.

    In your country and mine, that can be argued. There are several
    countries around the world, however, in which to post at all takes
    courage, and pseudonyms are the first line of defence against the
    state's retribution.

    (No, I'm not suggesting that this applies to "Mr Flibble". Just making
    the general point.)


    Yes, there ARE situations where pseudonymity is called for, but, as you
    point out, this is not one.

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Mon Jul 21 19:14:13 2025
    On 7/21/25 12:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:04:49 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- he
    offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the neverending
    arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is talking
    about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past tense of
    write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning style is NOT
    based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis principles and
    how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things is
    not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and just needs
    to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF* they are willing
    to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic principles,
    tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good when
    writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully grounded in the
    base of the system, something it seems neither you or Olcott understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based on
    wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning of
    ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis, showing
    where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and only then use
    the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency of the speaker.
    Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason to claim the
    argument is wrong is because of something about the person.

    Oh but I do know the meaning of ad hominem, dear, as I pointed out one
    such logical fallacy that you made when trying to debate Olcott (see elsewhere in this thread). At this point you are basically lying: not a
    good look, mate.


    Where you made the fallacy of taking out of context.

    All you are showing is you are nearly as much of a liar are Olcott, as
    you need to resort to fallacies and lies to support your position.



    All you are doing is proving that you are just as bad at knowing what
    you are talkinga about as Peter, and since you have chosen to hide your
    real identity, that you are really just a TROLL, and your comments
    meaningless.

    Obviously using a psuedonym does not mean that what I write is
    meaningless: you are not very good at this are you?

    /Flibble

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Tue Jul 22 16:11:53 2025
    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:14:13 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/21/25 12:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:04:49 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks --
    he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is talking
    about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past tense
    of write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning style is
    NOT based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis principles
    and how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things is
    not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and just
    needs to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF* they are
    willing to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic
    principles,
    tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good
    when writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully grounded
    in the base of the system, something it seems neither you or Olcott
    understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based on
    wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning of
    ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis, showing
    where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and only then
    use the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency of the
    speaker. Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason to claim
    the argument is wrong is because of something about the person.

    Oh but I do know the meaning of ad hominem, dear, as I pointed out one
    such logical fallacy that you made when trying to debate Olcott (see
    elsewhere in this thread). At this point you are basically lying: not
    a good look, mate.


    Where you made the fallacy of taking out of context.

    No, liar, you created the ad hominem a priori to your subsequent argument
    so it was not taking anything out of context.


    All you are showing is you are nearly as much of a liar are Olcott, as
    you need to resort to fallacies and lies to support your position.

    You are the liar, as I have shown.

    /Flibble

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Tue Jul 22 22:17:40 2025
    On 7/22/25 12:11 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:14:13 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/21/25 12:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:04:49 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks --
    he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is talking
    about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past tense
    of write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning style is >>>> NOT based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis principles
    and how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things is >>>> not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and just
    needs to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF* they are >>>> willing to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic
    principles,
    tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good
    when writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully grounded
    in the base of the system, something it seems neither you or Olcott
    understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based on
    wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning of >>>> ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis, showing
    where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and only then
    use the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency of the
    speaker. Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason to claim
    the argument is wrong is because of something about the person.

    Oh but I do know the meaning of ad hominem, dear, as I pointed out one
    such logical fallacy that you made when trying to debate Olcott (see
    elsewhere in this thread). At this point you are basically lying: not
    a good look, mate.


    Where you made the fallacy of taking out of context.

    No, liar, you created the ad hominem a priori to your subsequent argument
    so it was not taking anything out of context.

    Sure it is.

    Note, the statement you quoted doesn't even say the statemwent is wrong
    BECAUSE of his mental condition.



    All you are showing is you are nearly as much of a liar are Olcott, as
    you need to resort to fallacies and lies to support your position.

    You are the liar, as I have shown.

    /Flibble

    Nope, all you have shown is you are an idiot that doesn't know what he
    is talking about.

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  • From Mr Flibble@21:1/5 to Richard Damon on Wed Jul 23 23:50:45 2025
    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:17:40 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/22/25 12:11 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:14:13 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/21/25 12:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:04:49 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- >>>>>> he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is
    talking about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past
    tense of write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning
    style is NOT based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis
    principles and how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things
    is not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and
    just needs to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF*
    they are willing to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic
    principles,
    tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good
    when writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully
    grounded in the base of the system, something it seems neither you
    or Olcott understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based
    on wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning
    of ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis,
    showing where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and
    only then use the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency >>>>> of the speaker. Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason
    to claim the argument is wrong is because of something about the
    person.

    Oh but I do know the meaning of ad hominem, dear, as I pointed out
    one such logical fallacy that you made when trying to debate Olcott
    (see elsewhere in this thread). At this point you are basically
    lying: not a good look, mate.


    Where you made the fallacy of taking out of context.

    No, liar, you created the ad hominem a priori to your subsequent
    argument so it was not taking anything out of context.

    Sure it is.

    Note, the statement you quoted doesn't even say the statemwent is wrong BECAUSE of his mental condition.

    The implication is there, liar.

    /Flibble

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Mr Flibble on Thu Jul 24 21:40:24 2025
    On 7/23/25 7:50 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:17:40 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/22/25 12:11 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:14:13 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/21/25 12:49 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:04:49 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

    On 7/20/25 3:26 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
    All Damon has is learn by wrote preaching and ad hominem attacks -- >>>>>>> he offers nothing of originality, interest or substance to the
    neverending arguments he has with Olcott.

    /Flibble


    I guess Mr Flibble is just showing he doesn't know what he is
    talking about, and can't even use the right words.

    Note, the phrase in learn by ROTE (not wrote, which is the past
    tense of write), and in fact, I DON'T learn by rote, as my learning >>>>>> style is NOT based on memorization, but by understanding the bascis >>>>>> principles and how to derive things.

    Also, "Originality" in logic, when talking about established things >>>>>> is not necesarily "good", as the truth has been established, and
    just needs to be explained to those that don't understand it, *IF* >>>>>> they are willing to learn.

    "Originality" if not backed by an understanding of the basic
    principles,
    tends to result in just the spouting of falsehoods. It may be good >>>>>> when writting fiction, but technical things need to be fully
    grounded in the base of the system, something it seems neither you >>>>>> or Olcott understand,
    and thus your "original" ideas tend to be just flat out lies based >>>>>> on wrong meaning of words.


    And, as pointed out, you also show you don't understand the meaning >>>>>> of ad hominem, as I always start my argument on a factual basis,
    showing where the argument is wrong on the basis of the facts, and >>>>>> only then use the repeated use of that to show the mental deficiency >>>>>> of the speaker. Ad Hominem specifically says that the quoted reason >>>>>> to claim the argument is wrong is because of something about the
    person.

    Oh but I do know the meaning of ad hominem, dear, as I pointed out
    one such logical fallacy that you made when trying to debate Olcott
    (see elsewhere in this thread). At this point you are basically
    lying: not a good look, mate.


    Where you made the fallacy of taking out of context.

    No, liar, you created the ad hominem a priori to your subsequent
    argument so it was not taking anything out of context.

    Sure it is.

    Note, the statement you quoted doesn't even say the statemwent is wrong
    BECAUSE of his mental condition.

    The implication is there, liar.

    /Flibble

    Not when you look at the context, which show where the error is.

    Being the liar may cause him to lie, but the statement is shown to be a
    lie indepedent of that fact, which is the key point for ad hominem.

    Sorry, you are just proving you are about as ignorant.

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