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 g --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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