The ad hominems were entirely called for. He was just another academic bully playing word games--his entire gimmick based upon a reading of things into Plato that weren't there.

Of course Wittgenstein would be the one to immediately see through him, and act accordingly--like Jesus did with the moneychangers.

You know what, you're right, I won't dispute his incapacity to correctly read the classics. I took offense to the attack on the question of falsifiability, which is philosophically miles ahead of anything else that came out of Europe in the last 2 centuries (barring, of course, wittgenstein himself)

“I don't want to hurt you” seemed like a cop-out to me. Someone who was legit would see that as a wonderful opportunity to spread the light. No need to hurt anyone.