(see e. g., http://tinyurl.com/2xmtn3)
Clinton: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor"
If I were Hillary Clinton, I would be a Martian. Is anyone tired of the "if x were z" scenarios that get bandied about to make lame arguments? Examples- "If Obama were white, he wouldn't be doing this well in the primaries," "If Hillary were a man, she'd get more respect," "If 6 turned out to be 9, all of the hippies would cut off all their hair." Did you know that when you put a counterfactual at the beginning of a conditional statement anything you put at the end is true. So, when I say these arguments are lame, I mean they are invalid for drawing nay useful conclusions about reality. That being the case, why don"t we just stop making them?. Jimi spoke out against talking points and repetitive phrases thusly: "I've got my own world to live through and I ain't gonna copy you."
Posted 03/25/2008 at 18:56:34