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   Some people flaunt their erudition not b 21-Feb-01 rajendra
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rajendra Posted on 21-Feb-01 12:04 PM

Some people flaunt their erudition not by the words they use, but by the range of topics they pretend to know and cover. Not to mention the reuse of borrowed ideas and circular logic.

While exhibition through vocabulary is easily discernable (and criticizable), that done with the other means as mentioned above is harder to tell, and hence more dangerous and deceptive. We should be just as careful of them too.

And here's the GBNC website's quote of day today:

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing.

- Archilochus
nobody Posted on 23-Feb-01 01:35 PM

hear! hear!