Elliot Temple

From: "Fetteroll" <fetteroll@...>


> For those who just joined, TCS (Taking Children Seriously) is a parenting
> philosophy separate from unschooling. You can understand unschooling fine
> without reading a bit about it. (The webpage for TCS is
http://www.tcs.ac/)
>
> If you find the TCS discussions annoying, try the delete button :-)
>
> From my experience if no one responds to a conversation, it goes away.
(But
> that would be induction and apparently Hume showed that doesn't work.)

Well, its easy to explain too. Why might conversations with no replies go
away?

Fetteroll

on 4/29/02 5:14 AM, Elliot Temple at curi@... wrote:

> Why might conversations with no replies go away?

I should have said they come to an end. One person talking isn't a
converstaion. It's a monolog. And generally, inductively reasoning from past
behavior, people are looking for dialog.

Though occasionally, and I've observed this also, some people do keep
posting. Perhaps, theorizing here, because they just enjoy seeing their
words appear even if no one is responding. I've never observed it to
continue for long. Though I can't recall if it always stopped spontaneously
or if it needed moderator intervention.

One way or the other we will add another data point to our collection.

Joyce
Unschooling-dotcom moderator

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In a message dated 4/29/02 3:11:21 AM, curi@... writes:

<< Well, its easy to explain too. Why might conversations with no replies go
away? >>

They might not! I guess a theory with NO evidence or logic is as valid to
some people as one proven daily by personal experience.