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| Jan 23, 2010 3:13 am |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: That Human Activity is a Significant Cause of Global Warming. |
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Tortured syntax? Huh? Who has chopped off the essential part of the proposition here ? (which in the proprer torture-context would qualify as somewhat more than torture?)
Don’t put words in my mouth. I am not arguing about the burden of proof. I suggested -- in case you missed it -- it is the entirely wrong question to quibble about. But if you insist that it is what we ought to adhere to, why refuse to accept that burden (“I don’t have to prove anything”) when the reversed corrected question is put to you?
I am not sure what in Tate’s Hell’s tortured syntax swamp you are referring to in your last non-sequitur sentence. I’d accept it as an undeserved overblown compliment if you were referring to my proposals for evaluating planning arguments (none of which we have nbeen dealing with in this thread so far) which indeed are, in my humble opinion, an innovative addition to the traditional body of knowledge about argumentation (about planning proposals) which has been neglected by both logic and rhetoric -- but very far from any pretension of an entirely new rhetorical system. But I don’t think you even know about that. So, if it’s just about suggesting a different proposition as the Affirmative one that needs defending: Straw man argument? In which case you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Again, John, my apologies for allowing myself to deviate from the thread topic here. But you and T. H. asked for it, kindasortadidntya?Private Reply to abbeboulah (new win) |
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