[lbo-talk] Liberals

[Carrol Cox]

On 5/31/2011 10:34 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 31, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>
>    
>> Doug cited this untethered hot-air balloon of an obiter-dictum
>> in response to an observation of mine about the necessary
>> circularity of definitions (which is not quite the same thing
>> as a tautology, NB).
>>      
> Not quite the same thing, but not unrelated. When HB says it, it's bombast. When you say it, it sparkles with wit.
>    
The bombast lies in the word "deep."

It's turtles all the way down.

Carrol