[lit-ideas] Geary's Rude Counterfactuality -- Unproven
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:52:32 EST
Geary:
>I only read half of [JL's posts]. Maybe those Euros among us
>have to pay by the minute to download -- that would piss me off, too,
>to pay to download forty-two of your posts, forget it.
-- No, I won't forget it. Instead, I'd call it a rude counterfactual.
How would _you_ like me to say,
"If I had been Hitler I would not have sent all those
Jewish people to the concentration camps"
--- Counterfactuals, being totally unverifiable or unrefutable by Popperian
standards, become
_rude_.
Cheers,
JL
Master in Gymnastics, Verbal and Other.
Buenos Aires -- River Plate Plain, The Argieland.
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