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Re:What I Didn't Say by umanwizard on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:08PM (#6988703)
Do you honestly not know what a Ph.D is, or are you just making a flabbergastingly disingenuous argument? He has a doctorate in CS, not philosophy, despite the ceremonial Latin name of the degree.
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Re:What I Didn't Say by coldtea on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:41AM (#6989223)
Instead of going on about a "flabbergastingly disingenuous argument" and blaming it on him not understanding that a Ph.D is not a philosophy degree (seriously? you think he doesn't know that?), it would have been much more productive, and correct, to assume he made the simple mistake of thinking pg has a Ph.D in philosophy, where in fact he has a B.A.
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Re:What I Didn't Say by jacalata on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:33AM (#6989775)
Yes, I think he doesn't know that, and the way the comment was written seems to make that the obvious reading. What makes you so certain he does?
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Re:What I Didn't Say by chris_wot on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:23PM (#6988755)
He seems to have made a mistake. pg has BA in philosophy.
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