Severian's memory

James Wynn · 26 Jul 2009, 02:09 · from 2009-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:09:08 -0500
Subject: (urth) Severian's memory
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>The narrator seeks to recall the incident and does so, but the effort 
>produces a false positive that is duly recorded. This isn't a logical flaw, 
>but one of woefully subjective methodology.

The logical flaw is his argument "I do not forget." which is based 
(presumably) on a specific unsupported premise: "I would know if I had 
forgotten something." This is the logical flaw defined as Begging The 
Question.

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