Aside : If that last paragraph seems familiar, it is with good reason. You've seen it before, in "The Argument in Reason without Proof". In that, and in "The Limits of Exposition", the "questioner" was the Irene of this dialog, and the answered was Tractatus, or "T", in this account.

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We should treat that earlier article as an insert into this one, right here. A reasonable question is why this account has been constructed in such an inside out fashion. The reason is because I wanted the reader to approach the incivility here with an open mind, and an understanding of why it was engaged in. This was not rudeness for rudeness' sake, but an unavoidably unpleasant way of getting to a point. Picking up where that article leaves off, let's continue.