"Dutch" > wrote in message news:GPWti.39889$fJ5.24475@pd7urf1no...
> pearl wrote:
> > "Dutch" > wrote in message news:XhQti.39249$fJ5.34707@pd7urf1no...
>
> >> He just doesn't get it, they *read* those books, they DON'T AGREE with
> >> the arguments! They could have said, "Mr Regan, you fool, didn't you
> >> read *my* book? but they all have too much class to put on such a
> >> childish display.
> >
> > He 'got' that their arguments reflected ignorance of the literature.
>
> They aren't ignorant, they read "The literature",

The showed "*no evidence*" of reading the philosophical literature.

<snip usual verbal abuse>