Severian's memory
Jeff Wilson · 26 Jul 2009, 20:10
· from 2009-July.txt.gz
This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything
here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer
encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the
archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those
repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is
for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site,
so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.
From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:10:36 -0500 Subject: (urth) Severian's memory In-Reply-To: <2DB5C82C192643019CCF70BAE797B25E@eMachinePC> References: <c04.6495caeb.3796536e at aol.com><2C6039EAF3814649A6DB724C936B9E18@eMachinePC> <4A67B477.6020406 at io.com><05345EED82A744A8A4386A16532A453D@eMachinePC> <4A688679.7090808 at io.com><7D352B4E9FD54C8182ADC5771512E82E@eMachinePC> <4A692756.5030603 at io.com><850D4F673A6D4803A54611A2BC36546F@eMachinePC> <4A6A577A.2030305 at io.com> <2DB5C82C192643019CCF70BAE797B25E@eMachinePC> Message-ID: <4A6CB83C.8000401 at io.com> James Wynn 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. > > The logical flaw is his argument "I do not forget." This is a single proposition. A logical argument has the form of two or more propositions. -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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