On 12 Jul 2010 at 15:31, Arlo Bensinger wrote: [Platt] You call Bo's thinking a "dismal display" and that you will correct his thinking with a "sound rhetorical and argumentatively valid platform."
In other words, "I, Arlo, will now instruct you, Bo, on the right way to think." No big deal. We've come to expect such pomposity from Arlo and his fellow academics. [Arlo] I appreciate your need to launch yet another insubstantive diversionary "argument" (like all those "free speech" Wurlitzers), but it only evidences what I've been saying all along... the SOLists are forever trapped in a need for interpretive legitimacy, despite their calls for intellectual relativism, and this continues to prove just that. There is no "right" way to think, but there are "better" ways to frame one's argument. Bo's "argument" continues to rest on strawmen and dishonest rhetoric, and I am merely pointing out that the valid ground he could be standing on is right there beside him. Of course, he (and you, it seems) seems trapped by the "THE", and that's the source of all this hullaballoo. I will point out that if you are seeking to call people out for claiming "there is one way to think", Bo's recent posts provide clear, simple and unquestionable examples of such egomania. And yet you remain silent about that. Hmmm... one can only wonder why. Indeed, you say to me "No big deal. We've come to expect such pomposity from Arlo and his fellow academics", and yet the one most evidencing "pomposity" (Bo) remains uncalled out. [Platt] It's one thing to argue a point of view with vigor. It's quite another to decree there is one a right way to think, regardless. That you can't tell the difference speaks volumes. But, like I said, no big deal. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
