XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:51:31 -0000 (UTC), Antonio Marques   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
   >> In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field   
   >> he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong.   
   >>   
   >   
   >People desperately tried to jump on every unqualified statement of his for   
   >some interpretation that would make him 'wrong'. What almost everyone does   
   >is raise an objection to that course of action, but he consistently chose   
   >to ignore that path, which in a way makes the other feel not acknowledged   
   >as an interlocutor. That caused a huge amount of resentment, but who is to   
   >blame? The answer depends on the degree of good faith on the part of those   
   >trying to 'correct' him.   
      
   In my experience it was the other way round.   
      
   He would pronounce that something someone else had said was wrong,   
   when it wasn't and continue to insist on it even when several people   
   had produced evbidence that it was true.   
      
      
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