[lit-ideas] Re: Persuasion Redux
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:26:15 +0700
Walter Okshevsky wrote:
"But could anybody provide an example of the significance of context
to the persuasiveness of philosophical claims and judgements? How
about to their rightness or truth?"
To know whether a proposition is true or not is to know the context
within which the proposition is properly asserted. Without context,
there is no way to determine rightness or truth. I would think
context even more important for persuasiveness since persuasiveness
is, at least in part, the congruence of logical argument and
experience.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Indonesia
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