Kattarina98
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| Quote (didymos @ Sep. 05 2010,19:45) | Mathgrrl is having none of it: | Quote | (snip)
Asking for definitions in order to understand someone’s argument is “pure rhetoric”? Actually, I am doing tgpeeler the courtesy of taking his points seriously and spending my time and intellectual effort to understand them better. You, on the other hand, are being remarkably uncivil by casting baseless aspersions on my intentions.
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I could go down the rathole you’re attempting to dig by explaining how mathematicians define terms, but that would simply distract from the main point of the discussion (which, I suspect, is your goal).
The point is that terms of art like “functional information” must be rigorously defined before they are used. The inability of tgpeeler or yourself to do so means that any claims about functional information are quite literally meaningless.
If you would like to respond to my courtesy with courtesy, I would be delighted to continue the discussion with you. If, instead, you want to persist in your attempts at distraction, I’ll spend my time with the more civil participants here.
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Uh-oh, I can see another 20 Euro going to NCSE.
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