File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 169


Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:38:06 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Arguing from ignorance


>Sad day when people who yammer about academic credentials can understand
>clear latin:
>
[One presumes, of course that you meant "cannot" rather than "can."
Trivial, of course, but not all of us are close readers of intention.]

>While ad used as a preposition of *motion* is towards, it call also be used
>as a relation between to things, in this second sense it can be said to
>mean "as a consequence of" a state or an event.
>
>So Argument as a consquence of/in conformity with ignorance. Or argument
>from ignorance.
>
>Since a person is not a state or an event in Latin, though in English we
>might say "I happened upon a stream" , there is no potential confusion.

[I'll take your word for it having, as I said, small Latin, and zip Greek.
but I must note that your use here of "yammer" does not answer my question.
It instead attempts to evade it, in my reading. I am very willing to be
corrected. I have nothing against autodidacts. They, after all, live with
the source of their errors.]

>Stirling Newberry


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