Re: democracy

[Tom Walker]

Steve Kurtz wrote,

>Again the cornucopian fallacy raises its ugly head. 

My grubbing in the late-Victorian archive makes me suspicious of undefined
uses of the word "fallacy". The late-Victorian legacy can be roughly
translated as  "My class prejudice is Truth, yours (the one that _I_
attribute to you) is fallacy."

What kind of a *fallacy*, then, is this "cornucopian fallacy"? Is it a straw
man? An ad hominem? A reductio ad absurdum? Is it a forceful way of saying,
"I won't listen to you because (people like) you are not worth listening to"?


Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/