[lbo-talk] House rejects bailout

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 3 08:37:50 PDT 2008


----- Original Message ---- From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net> Personally, I would find a logical refusal of what I said more interesting, if silly posturing is all you can offer, it might be a good idea to keep it to yourself. What do you imaging you are adding to the list?

[WS:] It is a form of logical argument called reductio ad absurdum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

I used it too in my replies to you.  Wojtek

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