On Dec 31, 2008, at 12:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Your position is "All stories are based on memory. All memories are
fiction." 'All X are Y, and all Y are Z' entails that all X are Z.
Ergo all stories
are fiction.
Poooor syllogism. Your first premise does not share a term with your
second premise.
All X are based on Y.
All Y are Z.
-> ??? All X are based on Z?
Your conclusion ("all stories *are* fiction") does not express the
same idea signified by "all stories *are based on* memories."
I can't believe you don't see a distinction between a lie and truth,
so I asked what word you use to express that distinction, given you
extremely unusual
usage of the word 'fiction'.
A fiction isn't necessarily and exclusively a lie. A "lie" signifies a
known untruth that one person utters to deceive another person. A
"fiction" is not necessarily an untruth; rather, it signifies,
minimally, a replica, a representation, a thing made up to resemble or
stand in for another.
A map is a fiction, but a useful one. A map can be wrong for several
reasons. It can be extremely abbreviated, because of its size or for
other reasons: that is regarded as an inconsequential aspect. It can
be made with faulty or deficient information: that's an error. Or it
can be made intentionally to mislead [literally!]: that is a lie.
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Michael Brady
[email protected]
