Re: Dweomer,etc.

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:48:56 -0500, Larry Swain
<theswain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Kaos wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:19:18 -0500, Larry Swain
>> <theswain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>>Dan Clore wrote:
<snip>
>>>>True enough (though he seemed open enough about what he had borrowed,
to 
>>>>me anyway), but Tolkien wouldn't (that I remember) lead him to the
form 
>>>>"dweomer", or account for his fondness for this family of words. I
don't 
>>>>know of another that source that would, on the other hand.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Tolkien would lead him to the OED though and the OED has that form--QED
>> 
>> 
>> Lord, how the standards have dropped if plausible supposition counts
>> as QED now.
>
>Indeed, and how you display so well the very point you make.  Apparently 
>you failed to detect the implicit syllogism in the "supposition."

The premises are mere supposition.  And while that may be Good Enough
for symbolic logic,  those are not the grounds of the discussion.

But please, feel free to claim theoretical constructs trump practical
reality.  It's only a small step from there to discussing how both
were out of touch with genuine magickal practices...
(and hey, we can even justify adding alt.magick.kooks to this
crosspoost-orgy if we go there...)