Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 5:21:59 AM on Monday, April 2, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>>>> But your attitude towards academic training is yet
>>>> another of the typical stigmata of the crackpot.

>>> Not really, because I've also got academic training on
>>> computer science,

>> So? That has nothing to do with your obvious contempt for
>> the attitude that you believe is instilled by academic
>> training in linguistics.

> Not only in linguistics, I'm afraid. This is part of a new
> religion called scientificism.

The tune of the loon again. By the way, the usual word is
'scientism'.

And you've implicitly acknowledged that your previous
response was a non sequitur.

Brian