[lit-ideas] Ad Nominem
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:50:40 EDT
My new 'phallacy' [sic]:
"Ad nominem"
--- Victim: Protagoras, Socrates.
--- THESIS: Names are _unnecessary_ in philosophical discourse.
"Socrates thought that ...", "Protagoras, on the other hand, believed
firmly that ..."
Surely we are adult enough to understand _theories_ without the name-tag
attached to them.
Oddly, the Greeks were more civilised than the Romans there:
For Greeks, it's "Plato" (a disrespectful nickname meaning, "Of the Flat
Ass"). For the Romans it was "three" names, each ('for the price of one' as
Frege said):
-- Julius (i.e. born in the month of July)
-- Caesar (i.e. born of caesarean dissection)
-- Martinez (after the town)
Cheers,
JL
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