Platt,
You wrote:
Rhetorical fallacy? An oxymoron. Rhetoricians don't hesitate to use
fallacious logic if it serves their purpose.
Your comment is both a sweeping generalization and a drastic
simplification--- two of the most common rhetorical (or argumentative)
fallacies....
I find it most bizarre that a fan of Pirsig would make such a statement
about rhetoricians (sophists).
There are ways to abuse any discipline... to know about medicine is also to
about poisons... to know about law is to also know how to break laws
successfully... And yes, to know about argumentation entails knowing about
rhetorical (or argumentative) fallacies. After all, how is one to spot bad
argument if one cannot fallacies? And considering practically all
philosophy (including and especially Pirsig) is argument.... your comment,
and all that follows it seems very strange to me.
And on more time...
Platt, I ask you:
What rule of logic states that rules must address themselves?
Or in other words.... What rule of logic states that rules cannot have
exceptions? And if rules can have exceptions, why can't they exempt
themselves?
Rick
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