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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Susan smears Holtsinger unjustly
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.030504.15581@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 03:05:04 GMT
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- In <1993Jan3.011137.10390@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >She asserted not only that I have been criticized, but that I have been
- >criticized "while arguing for restrictions on abortion". That is the part I
- >consider a lie.
-
- No, she said that you have been criticized for (calling yourself "pro-choice"
- while arguing for restrictions on abortion).
-
- I think this is another example of your problem with disambiguating ambiguous
- statements. The following:
- "Darcy has been consistently criticized for labelling
- himself 'pro-choice' while arguing for restrictions on abortion."
- could be read as either:
- "Darcy has been consistently criticized for (labelling
- himself 'pro-choice') while arguing for restrictions on abortion."
- or
- "Darcy has been consistently criticized for (labelling
- himself 'pro-choice' while arguing for restrictions on abortion)."
-
- The first interpretation is clearly not the proper one, since the ones who
- are criticizing you are themselves pro-choice, and so wouldn't be criticizing
- you for simply being pro-choice. The second interpretation shows that the
- basis of the criticism is the hypocrisy in calling yourself pro-choice
- while arguing for restrictions on abortion. Regardless of whether you
- have or have not argued for such restrictions only affects the validity of
- the criticism; Susan simply stated that you *have* been criticized for it,
- with which you've already agreed. Therefore, Susan did not lie.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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