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- From: Charlie.Creegan@launchpad.unc.edu (Charlie Creegan)
- Subject: Re: Logic (WAS Re: War!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.224002.19154@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Summary: Jokes are bracketed
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- References: <1993Jan22.160827.15320@samba.oit.unc.edu> <C1F6En.JKs@umassd.edu> <C1GsqA.KC4@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:40:02 GMT
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- In article <C1GsqA.KC4@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >
- >In article <C1F6En.JKs@umassd.edu>, pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman) writes:
- >|> In article <1993Jan22.160827.15320@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Charlie.Creegan@launchpad.unc.edu (Charlie Creegan) writes:
- >|> >Um, not to quibble with such a learned philosopher, but there's a fallacy
- >|> >in here. If SG is a comic, then he is *not* appealing to rationality in
- >|> >his posts, since they are jokes.
-
- >|> SG Hold on there, big guy. What's this reason/joke split? You're not
- >|> claiming its metaphysical, are you?
-
- [GM]
- >In additon, all of Rand's writings are best regarded as a joke (not to
- >imply any component of reason in them).
-
- Hold on yourself, SG. All I _meant_ was that if the SG posts are jokes,
- as Gary alleges, then there is no "appeal" to reason in them. There are
- "joke-appeals" to something by a "joke persona" but this is at one
- remove from reality.
-
- Similarly all elements of St. Ayn's fiction are at one remove; e.g. you
- wouldn't think of appealing to John Galt as an authority (would you?)
- Any authority in those speeches is just your interpretation of what you
- think the author meant by including them. Maybe the whole corpus is a
- really truly intentional joke on all Objectivists!
-
- No metaphysics, just linguistic analysis.
-
- Charles Creegan NC Wesleyan College
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