TRTR Chap 7

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/20/2011 7:18 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> p.232..."most argument is simply agreement reached at different moments"....
> "these instants of reversal"............
>
> Does this imply some deep archaeologoical, almost Platonic conception
> of the true, the real IF even most disagreement is NOT basic? 
>
> Later on the page: "They talked in tones which recognized those of the other"..
> Comments?.....
>
> I love this....have often felt the difference, I think, between some who differ
> with you in conversational attitude...who "attack" as a statement of being agin
> ya (for whatever reason)
> or out of defensiveness.....
>
> VS.....someone who will engage with ya as if you are both trying to find an
> answer...
>
> You?
>
Reminds me of that report middle of last week of the French cognitive 
scientists making the "astounding" discovery that reason developed as a 
means of winning arguments.  Why are the academics always the last to know?

Anyway,  reason is that subset of unreason that is the hardest to refute.

P