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Comment on The Last Night With Aristotle by ~Antitheist

~NLY:iconNLY: Mar 18, 2008, 3:55:36 PM
Hm. After having read them, they're amusing, but taken as arguments it's rather poorly executed, resting their crucial premises on semantics.

This leads me to believe that you weren't so much in direct argument with the men in question as you were being amusing, which you were, really. Perhaps wrongly. In any case, the Wallace Stevens one is the best of the two of I've read.
This one is alright, the other one has a sharpness about it that this one sorely lacks.

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=livingcomforteagle:iconlivingcomforteagle: Nov 19, 2007, 5:42:52 AM
genius. :lol:

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~Antitheist:iconAntitheist: Nov 19, 2007, 9:12:49 AM
What can I say? I like having historical figures kill themselves.

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~TTBranwen:iconTTBranwen: Dec 19, 2007, 12:25:20 PM Mood: Humor
:rofl:

Would you mind if I sent a link to this to a friend of mine? He's a math major who hates Aristotle with a passion. He'd find this hilarious, too.
~Doc-Paterson:iconDoc-Paterson: Mar 18, 2008, 5:30:08 AM
Mike's didactic, self-assured tone strikes me as extremely obnoxious. Right or wrong, Aristotle thought about the world with great intensity, and I doubt that Mike would do any better, living in the era that Aristotle lived.

I'd have liked it a lot more if Aristotle pushed Mike into the ravine, to prove his point. :)

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~Antitheist:iconAntitheist: Mar 18, 2008, 6:23:17 AM
Thanks, dick. Except, if you didn't notice, I used no examples that wouldn't have been available to Aristotle at his time. Narratives are one of the many ways which philosophers prove points, and due to the nature of the discipline often come off as didactic.

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~carnalcarnage:iconcarnalcarnage: Mar 18, 2008, 10:25:57 AM
Lol! MAN, you're good.
~NLY:iconNLY: Mar 18, 2008, 3:55:36 PM
Hm. After having read them, they're amusing, but taken as arguments it's rather poorly executed, resting their crucial premises on semantics.

This leads me to believe that you weren't so much in direct argument with the men in question as you were being amusing, which you were, really. Perhaps wrongly. In any case, the Wallace Stevens one is the best of the two of I've read.
This one is alright, the other one has a sharpness about it that this one sorely lacks.

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Not All Who Wander Are Lost
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