Mark said:
... I can easily find selective quotes from James which will completely deny
dmb's position.
dmb says:
If you can easily dispute my claims with quotes from James, then why don't you?
In the world of philosophy quotes from philosophers is considered to be one of
the best kind of evidence. It's called textual evidence and no book or paper is
published unless there is a whole lot of it.
Selective reading is a different thing altogether. That's a bogus method
wherein one ignores all the evidence that doesn't fit. A person who does this
will usually find himself in a contradictory position wherein he ends up having
to defend the quoted philosopher from the same quoted philosopher. Unless
you're comparing quotes from two separate works that were written years apart,
when the various pieces of textual evidence fail to support each other in a
coherent way you can bet a large pile of money that the interpreter has made a
fundamental mistake somewhere in his reading. That's the problem with selective
reading or cherry-picking. Choosing the right quotes to make a case, however,
is just standard practice.
So if there is any substance to your claim and you really can deny my position,
then you'd be doing us all a favor if you dished it up. Then we'd have
something like a legitimate dispute and that's what a real conversation should
be like around here. But, as it stands, you've offered nothing but a vaguely
insulting fake promise. That sort of thing is worth less than nothing at all.
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