On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:26 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > I think it's not in the original fallacies because they come from Greek > rhetoric and the Greeks believed dialectic: the taking opposite > positions and arguing them thoroughly. It's only with the advent of > Western European political systems that we're conditioned to seek > compromise without rigorous examination. This actually makes argument > to moderation one of the most effective rhetorical tools in use today > for discrediting an opponent's argument without actually addressing it.
What? Really? You mean the truth doesn't lie in the middle between evolution and creationism? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
