Rex Kerr
2 min readNov 6, 2023

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(1) I'm not promising this is possible in even a single instance--see the conditional "If I reply again and disagree"? I might suspect so, but that's different than knowing.

(2) I don't say I'm going to both correct your interpretation and correct Eisler. I say I will do one or the other. "Or" does not mean "as well as". It's an option to do both, or only one, but not neither (unless I don't reply at all).

(3) Your original charge was, "you saying that you know more than I do about how my beliefs align with Eisler's" but the text you quoted doesn't make that claim at all. At most it says that I think I am likely enough to discover a discrepancy between a particular belief of yours and the corresponding belief of Eisler's that it is worth mentioning as a possibility.

You can know more about me about how your beliefs align with Eisler's but if you have slipped up even once and I can find it, then I'd be able to do what I said. Depending on what the slip-up was about, it may or may not be consequential. (I'll try not to waste our time with inconsequential stuff, however. I was taking that as a given before; I'm making it explicit now.)

Aside: Nurturing our Humanity came and I was trying to figure out where to put it (there are various reasons why this is not as trivial a thing as it might seem), and eventually decided, "Oh! That's a good idea! I'll put it ___!"...and...when I looked there, there was The Chalice and the Blade. So maybe I do have mental problems after all. Aaaanyway. I possess both now and know how to find them. Reading will take some time, however.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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