On 10/17/05, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You don't seem to understand the difference between a statement of
> personal principle (which appears below the signature line) and an
> argument for a specific position (which appears above the line). I
> don't expect anyone to accept my statements of personal principle,
> though they might if they want. I hope to convince people of the stuff
> above the line.

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And you don't seem to understand that not all expressions of casual
name dropping when discussing an issue are instances of the so-called
fallacy of the argument from authority. If we were discussing Brownian
motion and I casually dropped the name of Einstein into the thread
should I rather have derived all the equations on my own rather just
use his name as a place holder? So don't make an assumption that just
because someone on the list cites a figure who's contributed some bit
of knowledge to an issue under discussion that the person is guilty of
some logical fallacy.  This list would tear itself even further apart
if we all started nitpicking each other according to the current
standards of first and second order logic.

Yours in a thoroughgoing anti-authoritarianism.............

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