________________________________ From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 12:04 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Censorship Battle Over Frenchman's Face [was War Is War Is War] *clarification* It may have appeared that I agreed with Geach, and thought that Omar, in asking for a definition of 'censorship, belonged with the political hecklers, and other ne'er-do-wells Geach mentions. Not at all; I'm sorry if bringing Geach into it gave that appearance. Sometimes Geach gets carried away. Robert Paul *I was kind of wondering where I was being placed in this taxonomy, since I am no longer a political heckler and I haven't ever really been an avid writer of letters to newspapers. That leaves us with idle tosspots who argue inconsequentially over their beer, which has some empirical merit. O.K. > “Define your terms" is a regular move for political hecklers, for writers > of letters to newspapers, for idle tosspots who argue inconsequentially > over their beer; after bedeviling philosophy for centuries, the Socratic > argument has found its proper level; let us keep it there.' ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html