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  • From: Raymond de Hoop <rdehoop AT keyaccess.nl>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Argumentum e silentio
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:32:50 +0100


Dave,

Not a feeble attempt at reductio ad absurdum, but a feeble attempt at humor;
see the icon after the microwave oven remark. I am sorry that we apparently
do not share the same sense of humor.

Greetings
Raymond

> Since there is no substance to this post of Raymond's but only a
> feeble attempt at reductio ad absurdum, I have nothing more to say
> on this subject. It's clear we're getting nowhere, and I have other
> things to do.
>
>
>>>> You're fond of arguments from silence, aren't you? There's more to
>>>> the Deborah story than the song, in case you didn't know. If all
>>>> you can come up with are arguments from silence, then perhaps
>>>> you need to learn the expression "absence of evidence is not
>>>> evidence of absence." Considering the social/governmental
>>>> position that we are told Deborah was in, it's reasonable to
>>>> conclude that there were at least some instances when she had to
>>>> write. But apparently, arguments from silence are the best you
>>>> can muster, so I see no reason to continue this conversation.
>>>>
>>
>> Dave,
>> I'm glad you've analysed my postings and my scholarly work so carefully,
>> that you're able to give the judgment that I'm fond of "arguments from
>> silence".
>>
>> But apparently you do not know that bringing in the "argument from
>> silence"-argument is an argument from silence itself: It cannot be proven
>> that it did not exist, so it could have existed. That is the argument that
>> you are bringing in, and it's from silence itself.
>>
>> But well, who knows, you may be correct with regard to Deborah. In your
>> view
>> her social/governmental position justifies the conclusion that she had to
>> write occasionaly. Why do you not argue that she did not write with hand
>> but
>> did it by computer and faxed her correspondence?
>> Computers did not exist? Argument from silence!
>>
>> After her work she went home by car.
>> Cars did not exist? Argument from silence!
>>
>> She came home where her husband cooked the meal in the microwave oven.
>> A microwave oven did not exist? Argument from silence! :-)
>>
>> For other (and certaiunly more substantive) arguments I refer to the
>> postings by Liz, Ian and David.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Raymond.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> Dave Washburn
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> "No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
> tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
> violated." C. S. Lewis
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