> At this point, your comments seem to be made with a distinct relish for poking holes in someone else's statements. Don't get me wrong, I'm a regular visitor at www.nit-pickers_anonymous.com too, but I'd like to differentiate the questions in this thread that genuinely seek clarification and advancement of the discussion, and those that seek to score points ala a debate club.

Not at all. It seems to me to be a fairly major flaw; I don't understand his argument without that cleared up.

>(This isn't a reference to you, by the way; I don't mean to throw around veiled insults. :-) )

No insult taken. :-}

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