Robert Fisk

Seth Ackerman sia at nyc.rr.com
Thu Jan 3 18:06:38 PST 2002


Luke Weiger wrote:


> Gordon's already pointed out the problem with this, but it bears
> repeating: if Robert Fisk was in "their shoes" in the sense that we're
> talking about, he would no longer be Robert Fisk. The only logical
> proposition that can be extracted from Fisk's argument is the tautologous
> claim that, "If I were a member of the lynch mob I would've acted as
> a member of the lynch mob." Such frivolty requires no response regardless
> of its rhetorical gloss.

Ease up on the guy. He's only a journalist. So what if not every conjecture could withstand the scrutiny of a team of analytic philosophers?

Seth
> -- Luke
>



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