Comment on Open Thread: January 2010

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:42:50 GMT

If someone's argument, and therefore position, is irrational, how can we trust them to give honest and accurate criticism of other arguments?

At which point you are completely forsaking your original argument (rightfully or wrongly, which is a separate concern), which is the idea of my critical comment above. It's unclear what you are arguing about, if your conclusion is equivalent to a much simpler premise that you have to assume independently of the argument. This sounds like rationalization (again, no matter whether the conclusion-advice-heuristic is correct or not).

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