> There is nothing to find convincing besides my own preconceptions >
A bit agitated it seems. this sentence ought to have read something like: There is nothing to find convincing IN EXAMPLES besides my own preconceptions. Sorry for the confusion On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:29 PM, imago Asthetik <[email protected]> wrote: > Virago? Ouch. > > > One name is as good as any other, I suppose, especially since none of them > mean anything. > > But, just to clear the air here. I have no personal gripe against > Cheerskep (I, for one, honestly do not even recall a previous incident > involving him -- goes to show, I suppose). > > I just happen to think that he has been haranguing the list for years now > without ever really explaining what he is on about. Worse, he constantly > shifts the goal posts of discussions. As I have tried to point out, to no > avail it seems, examples that are multiply interpretable, do not demonstrate > anything. If I find nothing convincing in his gallery of examples, it is > simply because examples are neither art nor argument. There is nothing to > find convincing besides my own preconceptions > > But I think I am finally tired of this kind of discussion. I wish I could > say it has been fun. But Cheerskep has yet to produce anything approximating > an argument and now resorts to facile defenses and fatuous claims concerning > a person he has not met. Fallacy after fallacy. He has yet to address a > single criticism I have raised. Let him take his nap. I hope his dogmatism > keeps him warm and secure.
