[Sca-cooks] - a slight rant on logic (was Sauerbraten)

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:

> > But I have to agree. Research that takes its shape based on the 
> > conclusion you want to draw, instead of taking you in a certain 
> > direction because it's good research and damn the torpedoes, as it 
> > were, is a bad thing.
> 
> [Deleted most of  evil-nasty-proto-Laurel Rant.]
> I don't see anything wrong with asking 'did they have anything like x' 
> in period, as long as you are not starting with the intention of serving 
> X.
> 

Okay.  What if the author in question posted the initial query without the *intention* of serving
X, but rather a *desire* to serve X, and wanted to know if there was anything in the corpus which
might lend a hand in that regard?  Or, is that what you just said?  :)


William de Grandfort



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Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.


		
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