RE: street epistemology
December 16, 2015 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2015 at 4:39 am by Alex K.)
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Something bothers me about it. It's a bit too clean-cut. The guy just agrees with everything the interviewer says, and sometimes is manipulated a bit rhetorically - like when the interviewer says "and does *that* allow the conclusion that the belief is true" and he is forced to answer "no" to this specific point. That's a nice rhetoric trick to make your opponent look as if he is admitting defeat while only conceding one particular point you yourself have led them towards - this makes it look as if he could have no *other* better reason whatsoever for his belief.
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Something bothers me about it. It's a bit too clean-cut. The guy just agrees with everything the interviewer says, and sometimes is manipulated a bit rhetorically - like when the interviewer says "and does *that* allow the conclusion that the belief is true" and he is forced to answer "no" to this specific point. That's a nice rhetoric trick to make your opponent look as if he is admitting defeat while only conceding one particular point you yourself have led them towards - this makes it look as if he could have no *other* better reason whatsoever for his belief.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition