Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:26:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> [0] But what the hell. His aside was basically "You're an idiot, therefore
> you're usually wrong"; which isn't a fallacy, presuming being usually
> wrong is the defining property of being an idiot. The fallacy comes
> when you generalise from the average case (usually wrong), to the
> specific (wrong in this particular instance), which wasn't the case
> here: we went straight from the general case to the specific case
> with no claim of connection at all.
Well, except that all of this was in a single paragraph which, according
to usual rules of written english, is an indication that the statements
are connected.
Either that, or bad writing.
--
Raul
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