rara-avis@icomm.ca wrote:
>
> Bubba, you need to look those words up in your
dictionary again.
> There is nothing hypocritical or illogical about
critizing the
> content of his argument. Look up "you're another"
under logical
> fallacies while your relearning what hypocritical
means also.
Descending so quickly into personal insults? That may be a
record for you.
I was responding to Kevin's comment and your response.
Kevin's comment was, roughly, that you can't criticize
Spenser for, on the one hand, not being like Marlowe, and on
the other hand for being an empty copy of Marlowe. That is
both hypocritical, in that you are taking on the appearance
of objective criticism (when the truth is you are simply
slagging Parker), and illogical, in that you are criticizing
Parker for being A and being Not A. Either Spenser is an
empty Marlowe clone, which you might argue is a bad thing, or
Spenser does un-Marlowe-like things, which you could argue is
also a bad thing. You can't criticize him for being both,
simply because the two are mutually exclusive.
And since you mentioned logical fallacies, you might look
up
"Ad Hominem."
--- Original Message ---
jjnevins@ix.netcom.com Wrote on Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:35:04
-0500
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You can't criticize him on those grounds because it's a
hypocritical and logically inconsistent argument.
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