paft: It's pseudo and jargon and waving your hand at a book when asked to support your claim with specifics most certainly is bupkes. If I'd tried that when I was a graduate student I'd have been laughed out of the English department. mc: Given the typical disdain for reason and reality that has infected the humanities departments I can understand that.
Asking for a cite more specific than, "I read it in a book" is not "disdain for reason and reality." And if you imagine that kind of rigor is only in the humanities departments, then you plainly know nothing about the basics of scholarship in any discipline. Science faculties would be just as demanding about cites (quite possibly even more) -- that is, they would expect a someone presenting an argument to cite, not just the book where they got the information used to bolster their claim, but the edition, the chapter, the page, and a quote of the relevant passage.
Sorry, but your posturing and bluster just don't substitute for actual intellectual rigor. You plainly don't really have anything to offer in the way of facts.
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Date: 21/9/11 19:02 (UTC)mc: Given the typical disdain for reason and reality that has infected the humanities departments I can understand that.
Asking for a cite more specific than, "I read it in a book" is not "disdain for reason and reality." And if you imagine that kind of rigor is only in the humanities departments, then you plainly know nothing about the basics of scholarship in any discipline. Science faculties would be just as demanding about cites (quite possibly even more) -- that is, they would expect a someone presenting an argument to cite, not just the book where they got the information used to bolster their claim, but the edition, the chapter, the page, and a quote of the relevant passage.
Sorry, but your posturing and bluster just don't substitute for actual intellectual rigor. You plainly don't really have anything to offer in the way of facts.