Re: "Shared" procedure division code

In article <dcog1h$e84$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>On 2-Aug-2005, docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> >> Leaving aside that I barely know what *I* believe, let alone anyone
>> >> else... assuming this to be true it begs the question: believes to be
>> >> belief or believes to be fact?
>> >
>> >Are you using the common definition of "begs the question" or the
>> >classical one?
>>
>> Answering a question with a question is no answer at all.
>
>It can be, but in this case it wasn't meant to be an answer.

'Meaning' is the result of interpretation, as Wittgenstein had it.

>It was meant to be
>a question.

As it was something done 'to speak or write in reply' it is, by
definition, answering.

>And your statement of fact did not answer my question at all.

That is because you left the FIFO answer-queue filled with my question,
having provided no answer at all.

DD

.

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