From: Brian Manning Delaney (bdelaney@infinitefaculty.org)
Date: Sat Sep 11 1999 - 13:58:04 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
> Brian Manning Delaney wrote,
> >> I don't see that the rarity of intelligent
> >> life lowers the risk that we'll self-annihilate.
>> Moi, I just meant that it increases
>> the probability that the apparent
>> absence of aliens has causes that aren't the
>> self-annihilation of technical cultures, ergo....
> If the absence of aliens is only
> "apparent" then it neither confirms nor
> contradicts speculation about possible
> causes of absence.
1) "Apparent" /=/ "only apparent" in the sense of "not real."
2) There are positions other than "confirm" and "contradict,"
such as: "lend X weight to."
Weren't you goin' fishin'?!
Best,
Brian.
-- Brian Manning Delaney <b-delaney@uchicago.edu> (No need to CC replies to me.)
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