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107 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 July 2014 12:04PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 05 July 2014 08:40:38AM 0 points [-]

First, I'm not sure if I agree with the ban, but I would allow EN to post one last apologia at least.

What makes you think that Eugine has any desire to post one last apology? If that's what I would have wanted to do, he could have acted differently if Kaj would have queried him.

Comment author: gjm 05 July 2014 09:34:42PM 9 points [-]

I think (p~=0.7) you are interpreting "apologia" to mean "saying sorry", and I think (p~=0.95) army1987 meant it in the sense "statement of self-justification".

Comment author: [deleted] 06 July 2014 08:15:52AM 4 points [-]

and I think (p~=0.95) army1987 meant it in the sense "statement of self-justification"

I did (otherwise I would have spelt it “apology”).

Comment author: gjm 06 July 2014 10:42:43AM 2 points [-]

Yup, that's what I thought. (I'm not sure that with the "apologia" spelling it even can mean "saying sorry", but I was too lazy to check and of course for all I know you might have got it wrong, hence only p~=0.95. ... I've now checked, and I think it can in principle mean "saying sorry" but I bet it basically never does. Because every path by which people come to know the word "apologia" goes back to Newman's book where it's very clear that the meaning is "self-justification" rather than "saying sorry".)

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