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Originally Posted by Toto
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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Gibson
Could you at least admit that you were wrong not only about what MIT "does" and therefore also about what anyone might have inferred about the focus of the reviewer's graduate studies, but to imply, as you did, that I was a dunce for not seeing (what to you was) "the obvious"?
Jeffrey
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MIT specializes in engineering and technical subjects. |
Actually what you previously claimed -- and used as a basis for excoriating me for not inferring what the reviewer's degree was in -- was that "[MIT] still specializes in training engineers." So now you are equivocating.
It certainly appears so given their schools and their mission statement.
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I said I should not have used the word inferred.
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Ummm .. what you actually said was that that you were wrong "to have expected [me] to infer anything", all the while claiming that the inference you thought was obvious given the "fact" (which you yourself seem to have inferred, but did not know as a fact) that the reviewer is a grad student at MIT and your "knowledge" that MIT is only a technical school and that it "specializes in training engineers", was a correct and logical one.
No, it's not especially since your
use of the word "infer" is not at issue.
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And if you infer that I thought you were a dunce because you did not realize that the author of the piece was a student of some branch of engineering, then you are wrong in your attempt to read my mind.
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Glad to hear it. But the idea that you were calling me a dunce for not seeing the "obvious" is, as even you have to admit, what your words "
Engineering Systems, as you might have inferred" could legitimately be taken to imply.
Jeffrey
11-06-2009, 02:57 PM
