Frederik Ramm writes: > The fact "there is no railroad here", however, is not something that I > would consider useful; because where would it end? I'm standing at a > lakeshore - there's no railway here, also there's no forest here, and no > building, and no rugby pitch, no telephone booth, and no power lines. > Certainly you're not suggesting we map all these negatives.
IN FACT NOBODY IS SUGGESTING THIS. This is called a "strawman argument". You create a position that nobody actually holds, which is unreasonable, and then you say "This Is Unreasonable" and then you use everyone's agreement to claim that a different position is wrong. The use of a strawman argument is evidence that you have no viable argument against the position that people actually hold. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
