Re: Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending

Posted by Steve Smith on Apr 03, 2013; 8:00pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-New-post-The-Loud-and-Clear-Message-that-the-TED-Controversy-is-Sending-tp7582434p7582449.html

Roger/Glen -

Dysrhetorica even better!

 Humpty-Dumpty-itis... more cynical perhaps.

"I am who you think I think I am" also seems relevant.

 It is perhaps why the most stubborn of us in our own self-image seem to be the easiest to deal with (one way or the other).  If we offer no doubt about who we think we are (or what our words mean) then others are not puzzled or confused about how to respond to us. 

This is the scant charm I find in those who stubbornly stick to their extreme positions (psuedoscientists, religious fanatics, conspiracy theorists) with or without effective argumentation or evidence in support of it.

What this topic still leaves me open to seek is an understanding of what parts, if any, of the psuedoscientists and/or woo peddlers ideas that TED is trying to ignore/exclude/silence might have some validity.   The whole baby/bathwater duality?

- Steve

You're right, dyslexia is a bad match.

Probably should have called it dysrhetorica, failure to recognize the significance of your own arguments, as evidenced by your dismay when people tell you what they heard you say.  

Or maybe it should be humpty-dumpty-itis, as in the words mean just what I meant them to mean, and it is very hurtful to me that you heard them mean something else.

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, glen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/03/2013 11:04 AM:

> I think it's a form of rhetorical dyslexia -- what one thinks one is
> arguing is not the argument that others hear one making.

I don't grok the map to dyslexia.  But the disconnect between the
thoughts of the sender and those of the receiver is quite clear ... the
best evidence against "psi" ... or perhaps with a softening like the
"rare earth hypothesis", that psi is so rare it may as well not exist.

--
=><= glen e. p. ropella
I learned how to lie well and somebody blew up

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