[lit-ideas] Re: SOS or Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 01:21:42 -0700 (PDT)
--- John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Taylor's traditional selves deploy a traditional
> logic rooted in full
> confidence that their premises are valid. His modern
> selves must find
> some other way to argue, since their premises are
> always in question.
*Nah, formal logic helps you to examine your premises.
If a valid argument leads into a false conclusion,
that means that there is something wrong with your
premises.
There is, to be sure, no shortage of alternatives to
relying on logical argumentation. Some of them are
known as appeal to authority, argumentum ad hominem,
argumentum ad bacculum, constructing a strawman etc.
O.K.
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