[Best Of: Philosophy] New arrival asks about the "anti-religion aspect of Objectivism." Producer eloquently responds with, "check your premises" - without ever saying, "check your premises."

Posted by sdesapio 11 years ago to The Gulch: Best of

Zen has a way of laying it out concisely without ever getting caught up in the weeds. Well done.

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Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago

Yes. Arguments can be unsound because of wrong premises or bad reasoning from those premises. Just saying an argument has a problems with premises or fallacious reasoning without saying which premise or which logical step is meaningless.

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  Posted by KSilver3 11 years ago
  
  CG- However, being spoon fed the supposed faulty premises doesn't really help anyone either. As the new guy in question, I rather enjoyed the intellectual exercise of trying to figure out which premise Zen took issue with, and working the issue from different directions in my head.
  
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago
    
    "I rather enjoyed the intellectual exercise of trying to figure out which premise Zen took issue with, and working the issue from different directions in my head."
    Yes. I liked Zen's approach in that case. My comment applies only to saying CYP without even hints at what primise we're talking about.
    
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