From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
Organization: Who, me???
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:09:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.060152.15624@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.001701.20480@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan17.030224.13349@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
>>>In article <1993Jan16.215258.14511@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>>>>In article <1993Jan15.012942.10882@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>> long time ago, and many attribution lines away, I wrote:
>>>>>>>>>Nope, not at all Kebbin. I admited it was a poor answer when I replied
>>>>>>>>>to another article in this thread. I also corrected the mistaken
>>>>>>>>>answer to include examples of people carrying on conversation while
>>>>>>>>>sleeping, quite intelligently. One example I used was that of a
>>>>>>>>>hematologist I had occasion to discuss a patient with at 2AM. He was
>>>>>>>>>quite responsive, and remembered none of it the next day. He stated
>>>>>>>>>that he must have slept right through the conversation.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>No Kebbin, I said "he stated he must have slept right through the
>>>>>conversation" 
>>>>
>>>>You also said "He ... remembered none of it the next day". I merely repeated
>>>>what you said, with a speculation as to the cause.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>If I was "wrong" [sic], it's only because you gave me incorrect information,
>>>>namely, that the hematologist "remembered none of it the next day". If you
>>>>want to point a finger of blame, point it at yourself.
>>>>
>>>Further proof that the problem lies in your inability to read an
>>>entire paragraph, and comprehend it. Try reading it again.
>>
>>Blather.
>>
>Oh come on Kebbin, you're trying to claim now that 'remembered none of
>it the next day' is 'incorrect' information? 

Mark, stop playing dumb (you are _playing_, aren't you?). I clearly said that
the "remembered none of it" comment was an echo of what you yourself said.
I have no idea whether it's actually true or not. I'm just repeating what you
told me. As for the "slept through it" part, how is that anything but 
speculation, given that the hematologist admits having NO REMEMBRANCE of the 
event? Did he have a REM monitor hooked up while he was talking to you?

>>I use terms that people will understand, Mark. "Schizophrenia" is understood
>>by most people the same way "MPD" is understood by the Medical Elite. But
>>since we have, as far as I know, only one member of the Medical Elite in the
>>audience, I used the term mostly likely to be understood by the most people.
>>That's not "wrong"; it's just an attempt to facilitate communication.
>>
>If this were true, then there would have been questions raised when I
>initially corrected you about the term 'multiple personality disorder'

That's the laughably *weakest* argument I've heard in a long time:
	
	"If I erred, someone would surely have corrected me. Since they
	 didn't, I'll assume I'm correct."

Back to the drawing board, Markie Poo.

							- Kevin