[lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Tue Feb 22 13:25:55 PST 2005


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>> Here's the problem: people impute a motive, and then they turn off
>> any other critical thinking or assessment of the assertion
>
> They don't have to. Why is it so hard to do two things at once - in this
> case, evaluate both motive & argument?
>
> Doug

Sure, people can do both; it's just depends on which question you want to answer. "Why does that doofus make that bogus claim time and again?" --Analysis of motives is helpful. "Is that claim bogus?" --Analysis of motives is irrelevant.

Miles



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