[Steely Tom]

This was clearly a dispute over Kant's theory of knowledge. Does sensibility triumph over understanding? Or vice versa? Or must both be combined to achieve true knowledge?

Naturally, violence was the only resort.

I heard it started as an argument over the best way to prove that the eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix are always real, and it escalated to the Kant argument as the tempers rose.

[Noumenon]

I heard it started as an argument over the best way to prove that the eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix are always real, and it escalated to the Kant argument as the tempers rose.

But of course. Further, failure to employ the Hegelian dialectic to resolve disputes invariably devolves to biting, scratching, weave yanking and egregious bitch slapping.