On 15 August 2014 12:03, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's seem like you (and Liz) have a complaint that I don't have some fixed > world view that I'm proposing and defending and which I'm obliged to > explain. > > I can't speak for Pierz but my complaint is that you often don't make your comments clearly enough. For example you often appear to be saying one thing, but when challenged backpedal until you reach a different (and generally less provocative) position, which indicates the first comment was merely an attempt to push someone's buttons by making a bland statement in provocative language. You also mix up arguing about one subject with another, different subject, with no indication that you've changed (the womb comment does this, for example, once looked at closely). You act as though someone argued a particular case which you have shot down when they did no such thing (like your comment that "A fetus does get some environmental interaction, but I don't see how that proves it is necessary" - I wasn't the one arguing it was necessary, you were.) These are all down to either a lack of clear thought on your part, or are rhetorical tricks of the sort employed by politicians. Either way they are confusing, and if intentional, downright rude.
On the subject of not having a fixed worldview, that's not in itself a problem. I don't have a fixed worldview either, which is why you think I'm an arithmetical realist and Bruno thinks I'm a hard-headed materialist. However, I try to stick to a given position, in a given discussion, unless I state otherwise. Not having a fixed worldview but feeling free to change it between paragraphs without explaining what you're doing is, as stated, confusing (and if it's used to score imaginary points, it's also a cheap rhetorical trick that no one with any intellectual rigour should be employing). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
