Foxfyre wrote:Hmmm. It is cold in the room. I can't say that because I'm not comparing the temperature of the room to temperature anywhere else?
You're comparing it to your expectations. At any event, you did not allege that there exists a lack of parity in the room temperature, at which point it would be appropriate to query your point of comparison.
Quote:It isn't enough that I am uncomfortable when I make the observation?
Your subjective sense of comfort is not relevant to a discussion of your continuing failure to provide a corollary of contrast for the locution: "diversity of thought on major college campuses."
Quote:Setanta is given to snottiness when he disagrees with someone. I can't say that because I don't compare the degree of snottiness with posts from other members making snotty statements? (Analogy only) Do you feel constrained to compare my degree of obtuseness as you see it with others in order to make a statement?
Oh no, my statements of your obtuse nature, and the opacity of your understanding of language and logic are of an absolute character--comparison is inappropriate. However, this paragraph does make me despair that Europeans will continue to allege, with great justification, that Americans lack a sense of irony.
Quote:The preponderance of the evidence presented thus far is that a) liberal/leftish/Democrat registered and voting faculty outnumber conservative/rightish/Republican registered and voting faculty by a huge majority and many conservative faculty and students have found their particular point of view unwelcome on campus and that is both uncomfortable and unsatisfactory for them.
This statement is absolutely untrue. For evidence to be perponderant, it must be first proven, and second, compelling. No evidence of that character has been presented, and all the "evidence" which has been presented, has been shot down on the grounds that it is either anectdotal, or lacks points of references and quantification to make it meaningful. I am not saying that no such evidence exists, i am just pointing out that no such evidence has been presented here.
Quote:Why must that be compared with anything else to conclude that there is a disparity?
The alleged evidence is not being compared to something else, the diversity of thought on major college campuses needs to be compared to something else. If you do not complete that comparison, your statement lacks completion and coherence. By using the expression "diversity of thought on major college campuses," you are begging a comparison with diversity of thought somewhere other than major college campuses. But you continue to fail to provide that comparison. Therefore, you statement is incomplete, and incoherent.
Quote:You're stretching way too far to find a rationale to disagree here.
Oh, no stretch at all--you make it almost embarrassingly easy.
