IQ issue
Carrol Cox
cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Feb 8 15:27:15 PST 1999
Every conversation in which the participants aim at agreement
presupposes the separability of form and content. Those who engage in
the easy proofs of their inseparability (proofs which always, however,
presuppose the separability) might read Kenneth Burke, *Grammar of
Motives*, to gain an appreciation of the complexities involved.
Propositions affirming the inseparability of form and content are simply
incoherent: they literally cannot be affirmed.
And incoherent arguments cannot be refuted -- they can only be ignored
by going about one's business.
Carrol
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