> However, in order to produce this new "fact", ideology B has to find
> listeners, readers, publishers.... This is not an easy task. Prejudice
> against infinitesimals is present even in this list: "I am wondering if
> anyone shares my poor view that the association of R's "nonstandard
> analysis" with Leibniz gives non-standard analysis a certain cache that it
> wouldn't otherwise have, but, beyond that, is of little value?" (Moshe'
> Machover").
In this discourse, Baldino is producing a new "fact", which is provably
false: he is attributing to me someting I never asserted. Of course, it
may be my Hegemonic Western Prejudice that the alleged fact is false; and
it may be OK according to Baldino's non-hegemonic ideology.
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