> Well, neither of you are persuaded, so this cuts my way, not yours.
I myself
> can recall vividly the two or three times in my life when my mind
was
> actually changed about something important by an argument.
>
> (((((
>
> CB: Perhaps it is that to change one's position immediately in
response to someone's argument against one is rare, but is less rare
in a delayed reaction ,over more time, not having to eat crow in front
of the person one has been arguing with, and ,as you point to, in
conjunction with new experience which is seen in a different light
because of the heated argument of the past
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For those who want to delve further into the issues raised on the
thread and get an appreciation of what, in technical parlance, is
called defeasibility and deontic logic:
< http://www.ai.uga.edu/~dnute/ddl.html >
< http://www-csli.stanford.edu/hp/CVandNR.pdf >
< http://mally.stanford.edu/deontic.html >
< http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/dignum95communication.html >
< http://www.ditext.com/current/0007.html >
Ian