First, I’m not sure if I agree with the ban, but I would allow EN to post one last apologia at least.
What makes you think that Eugine has any desire to post one last apology? If that’s what I would have wanted to do, he could have acted differently if Kaj would have queried him.
I think (p~=0.7) you are interpreting “apologia” to mean “saying sorry”, and I think (p~=0.95) army1987 meant it in the sense “statement of self-justification”.
Yup, that’s what I thought. (I’m not sure that with the “apologia” spelling it even can mean “saying sorry”, but I was too lazy to check and of course for all I know you might have got it wrong, hence only p~=0.95. … I’ve now checked, and I think it can in principle mean “saying sorry” but I bet it basically never does. Because every path by which people come to know the word “apologia” goes back to Newman’s book where it’s very clear that the meaning is “self-justification” rather than “saying sorry”.)
What makes you think that Eugine has any desire to post one last apology? If that’s what I would have wanted to do, he could have acted differently if Kaj would have queried him.
I think (p~=0.7) you are interpreting “apologia” to mean “saying sorry”, and I think (p~=0.95) army1987 meant it in the sense “statement of self-justification”.
I did (otherwise I would have spelt it “apology”).
Yup, that’s what I thought. (I’m not sure that with the “apologia” spelling it even can mean “saying sorry”, but I was too lazy to check and of course for all I know you might have got it wrong, hence only p~=0.95. … I’ve now checked, and I think it can in principle mean “saying sorry” but I bet it basically never does. Because every path by which people come to know the word “apologia” goes back to Newman’s book where it’s very clear that the meaning is “self-justification” rather than “saying sorry”.)