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"This is where I stopped reading" is supposed to be some kind of intellectual badge of honor? "I found what appears to be a point I disagree with, and rather th
by larsiusprime 11y ago
"This is where I stopped reading" is supposed to be some kind of intellectual badge of honor? "I found what appears to be a point I disagree with, and rather than reading on to see if my disagreement was addressed, I started looking for the comment button."
- anigbrowl 11y agoThat's true, but on the other hand it's appropriate to take the author to task for trying to sneak in a claim in the form of a premise, and thus have it accepted without any supporting evidence.
- coldtea 11y agoIn order to find how other people think and understand their justifications, you have to read on even if they give you a claim or more in the form of a premise. Understanding a worldview is not about getting arguments for their every single premise, but about trying to see it as a cohesive whole -- because the end result is bigger that any "proven" foundations, and might retro-actively justify them in the first place. After all those doing the "I've stopped reading" in all probability have lots of premises they consider as axioms themselves (some of them marinated in some light "justification").