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Re: [TR] TR3A springs

To: terryrs@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3A springs
From: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:03:27 -0700
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.
>
>
>
>   

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


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