Severian's memory

John Watkins · 26 Jul 2009, 12:49 · from 2009-July.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:49:15 -0400
Subject: (urth) Severian's memory
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Well, it's definitely an unstated and unsupported premise.  I'm not sure
that it counts as question-begging.  Many people do know that they forget
things.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:09 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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.
>>
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> 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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