RE: Critique of "God is Not Great" by Christoper Hitchens
January 24, 2016 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 1:42 pm by robvalue.)
I appreciate you trying, but you're using the word "true" in a way that doesn't seem to mean anything.
It's true that I wrote the story, for whatever reason I wrote it. That's just a tautology. It's not necessarily true that my story undermines your story, it may have failed utterly. If it's only true that I intended to undermine you (and that was an assumption on your part, it wasn't part of the story) then that's not saying much useful.
I agree that you need to view things in context, and to see what you can really learn from it, regardless of whether the events happened as written. Is this what you're trying to say? If not, I have no clue and I'll have to give up. I'm all for philosophy, but when it gets to the point where you're assigning labels and meanings that apply equally to everything, they no longer have any significance.
It's true that I wrote the story, for whatever reason I wrote it. That's just a tautology. It's not necessarily true that my story undermines your story, it may have failed utterly. If it's only true that I intended to undermine you (and that was an assumption on your part, it wasn't part of the story) then that's not saying much useful.
I agree that you need to view things in context, and to see what you can really learn from it, regardless of whether the events happened as written. Is this what you're trying to say? If not, I have no clue and I'll have to give up. I'm all for philosophy, but when it gets to the point where you're assigning labels and meanings that apply equally to everything, they no longer have any significance.
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