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Originally Posted by 20000miles  [/LIST]I beleive the answer to this quibble lies somewhere in the realm of "thymology", however 20000miles has been too overloaded to persue this venture, which clearly requires more effort.
This is correct. IIRC Hazlitt tripped up here slightly here.
What I propose: Human: A member of the genus Homo and especially of the species H. sapiens. Action: employment of means to achieve ends over time
No surprise that opponents try to characterise these statements as meaningless, empty tautologies. |
Those statements are meaningless empty tautologies
The irony is that people who claim they are engaging in logical and 'scientific' reasoning are resorting to circular methodologies in an attempt to bamboozle opponents and drag them into pointless philosophical debates (and I have a degree in philosophy)
The fundamental flaw in their ideology is the fact that they make 'assumptions' to prove their theory, but they can not support those assumptions, when they are asked to justify them, they resort to the kind of sophistry that would make socrates blush. (the 'socratic method' being nothing but covert sophism)