Arlo, On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:16 AM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR wrote:
> [DMB] > Arlo and I are both complaining about a very specific and concrete example of > sloppy gibberish. > > [Arlo] > You're never gonna kick that football, Charlie Brown. Case in point... > > [Marsha to DMB] > As my name was included in the paragraph, I can only state I made no such > statement about Paul Turner's theory; I never mentioned SOM and there was no > reason to put me into the statement with the "Like Marsha, you seem to think > that incoherence is a necessary 'step' to free oneself from the choking dogma > of intellectual patterns." > > [Arlo] > My comment had nothing to do with Paul Turner's theory, and its being > 'challenged' on the basis of an implied quote. Aside from the semantic > reality that "seem to think" is not "say" or "mention", but ascertained from > the dialogue, the substance of the comment, any one following along, or able > to view the archives, will have no problem ascertaining its truth. Marsha: Even if "any one following along" or "able to view the archives" came to such a conclusion, and there is no proof that anyone following along or reviewing the archives have come to that conclusion, that wouldn't make it true. It's a version of the "everybody knows" fallacy where one asserts that common knowledge must be true. Marsha ___ 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
