terryrs@comcast.net wrote:
> Just a point of clarification.B I was about to dubiously dub Randall with the
> title ofB Honorary English Major for using "sophistry" correctly, for the
> issue wasn't about being argumentative as much as posing an argument of words
> without substance, which is rather in a nutshell what sophistry is.B All that
> business of droop versus sag is, for we laymen, pure semantics as long as the
> context was clear and it pretty much was.
>
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Umm, more specifically, sophistry is the employment of precise logic to
deceptively argue from a false premise and is thus a rhetorically
invalid argument. :)
Cheers.
--
Michael Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....
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