Re: tunefl and other web services

[David Kastrup]

Philip Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thursday 12 July 2012 David Kastrup wrote:
>
>>The Debian ad goes to a bit more effort than depicting an arbitrary
>>snapshot of a woman in a swimsuit.  And I still don't see them pulling
>>this off convincingly either.
>
> I can imagine, 
> speaking for myself but not for St Thomas Aquinas, that many ways of
> pulling a bikini off -- assuming the wearer has
> agreed to that course of action -- might be convincing from at least
> some perspective.

There is a fine line between having been convinced and being convinced.
Thomas Aquinas could have expressed this distinction with "persuadere ut
..." as opposed to "persuadere" with an a.c.i.

-- 
David Kastrup