[lbo-talk] Butler

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jun 24 18:35:16 PDT 2008


Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
> At 03:57 PM 6/24/2008, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >The Wol Man Case belongs to myth and legend, not to an argument in
> >2008
>
> You're saying the influence and creation of myth and legend ended
> somewhere sometime?
>
> That's strange coming from a specialist in literature.

At issue here was not whatever illumination one or another myth may lend to the world but an empirical claim by Doug in response first to Chris and then to me. Myth can't offer any evidence on that. Apparently some generals would see The Revelation of St. John as evidence for a foreign policy, but I don't think we would be rejecting myth _as myth_ if we rejected that as evidence for bombing Iran.

Carrol



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