[lit-ideas] Re: Can't have a gun? Get a dog
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:48:36 -0700
Ah, so that's what you meant. Well, what I said wasn't a strawman. It was
to show the absurdity of Andreas statement. I intended a reduction ad
absurdum. Viz. If you don't need to show a dominant dog that you are
dominant, that leaves him dominant. Of course no one is teaching that you
don't need to dominate a dominant dog. It would be absurd to think so.
That is what I said albeit too subtly by far, apparently.
Lawrence
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Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:41 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Can't have a gun? Get a dog
I wrote:
> The straw man is the notion that anybody was arguing that anyone here
> might recommend a method of training in which the dog was taught to be
> dominant.
I've written clearer sentences. The straw man is the notion that anyone
here might recommend a method of training, etc.
Robert Paul
(I'm out of here)
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