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Diedre McCloskey

Submitted by niftyc on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 14:22
"If he is a passionate man he knows passionately that his theory is the correct one; if a sober man he knows it soberly; anyway he knows it. For some reason, however, and despite his writing or talking, he cannot persuade all of his colleagues. The question arises, why?" --Deidre (Donald) N. McCloskey

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Submitted by niftyc on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 14:23.
This quote is from: "Rhetoric Within the Citadel: Statistics," pp. 485-490 in J.W. Wenzel at al., eds., Argument and Critical Practice: Proceedings of the Fifth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1987); reprinted in C. A. Willard and G. T. Goodnight, eds., Public Argument and Scientific Understanding (1993).