[Best Of: Philosophy] New arrival asks about the "anti-religion aspect of Objectivism." Producer eloquently responds with, "check your premises" - without ever saying, "check your premises." - Galt's Gulch

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[Best Of: Philosophy] New arrival asks about the "anti-religion aspect of Objectivism." Producer eloquently responds with, "check your premises" - without ever saying, "check your premises."

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 2 months ago to The Gulch: Best of

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Zen has a way of laying it out concisely without ever getting caught up in the weeds. Well done.

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Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.

"I rather enjoyed the intellectual exercise of trying to figure out which premise Zen took issue with, and working the issue from different directions in my head."
Yes. I liked Zen's approach in that case. My comment applies only to saying CYP without even hints at what primise we're talking about.

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Posted by KSilver3 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.

CG- However, being spoon fed the supposed faulty premises doesn't really help anyone either. As the new guy in question, I rather enjoyed the intellectual exercise of trying to figure out which premise Zen took issue with, and working the issue from different directions in my head.

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Posted by khalling 10 years, 2 months ago

gotta love that Zenphamy. I enjoy when I am waking up in the middle of night and can't sleep-reading Zen's sound reason. He's a night owl :)

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Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 2 months ago

Yes. Arguments can be unsound because of wrong premises or bad reasoning from those premises. Just saying an argument has a problems with premises or fallacious reasoning without saying which premise or which logical step is meaningless.

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