(May 10, 2015 at 2:24 pm)Alex K Wrote:(May 10, 2015 at 2:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: And did you intend to be asking that question, or were you just careless about the quotation marks in your original question? If the former, it would be a very strange thing for you to be asking. If the latter, then I answered the question properly.
I of course didn't intend it like that, but still felt the need to point out that if you are trying to be anal, you should be anal in a consistent fashion.
Except that I was not trying to be "anal." I was being quite serious about the matter. It is, as I have heard it said, "a distinction without a difference." Which, of course, seems very much to have been your original point.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.