Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 8

James Wynn · 02 Dec 2010, 16:41 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:41:10 -0600
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 8
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>
> Nicholas Goodman-
> Here is a fallacy: the slippery slope.
> After reading /Attending Daedalus/, I thought Wright was "eschewing 
> the traditional religious interpretation" of the Sun books because of 
> his physicalist worldview (though I do not know his worldview and he 
> never announces it to my knowledge). I'm a physicalist myself. If you 
> had read Wright's book you would see that he criticizes the religious 
> readings of Wolfe on the basis that those readers are religious.
>

I think the Logician term for that is "tit for tat". And here is an 
applicable opportunity to address the motives of a writer to understand 
his text. It would be a valid refutation of Wright's arguments to say 
that it is circular and that there is a reasonable probability that it 
exemplifies what he attempts to debunk. That would have been a good 
argument from the vantage of hindsight.

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