Faces in the clouds (was: Bible Study (Vanhoose))
Michael W. Fisher mwfisher@cts.com
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:52:39 -0800 (00886287159, 34D356D7.D533F32D@cts.com)
vanhoose wrote:
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> PAT
> See above. Is there any harm in determining ahead of time what the
> theme of the book is?
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MWF Certainly. The danger is that what one is identifieing is not "the
theme of the book" per se, but rather finding ambiguous phrases and making faces
in the clouds, so to speak.
Ciao.
--
Michael Fisher, ET1/SS USN ret., law student
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". . . a very LONG discussion is one of the most
effective veils of Fallacy: . . . A Fallacy which
when stated barely . . . would not deceive a child,
may deceive half the world if diluted in a quarto
volume"
Richard Whately, "Elements of Logic", p. 151