You said that Geoffrey was guilty of 4 intellectual sins. Do you mean that I am guilty of those sins ??????
About 2 of those sins:
GENERALIZATION: This is a very basic function of the mind. We group things together by finding that they have certain attributes in common. This is what inductive reasoning is all about. It is only a sin when it is excessive, like almost everything is detrimental if done to excess.
HYPERBOLE:
Actually, this is a sin throughout academia. For example, in 1968, Susan Sontag famously said, "The White Race is the Cancer of Human History."
I think that academia suffers from this affliction because a thesis is more apt to get attention if its is written in large and seething red letters.
This post is quite good. The writing is crisp and graceful, and the ideas are well-reasoned and insightful.
I looked at your post again
Who is Geoffrey. You never identified Geoffrey
My last name is Gottfried.
You said that Geoffrey was guilty of 4 intellectual sins. Do you mean that I am guilty of those sins ??????
About 2 of those sins:
GENERALIZATION: This is a very basic function of the mind. We group things together by finding that they have certain attributes in common. This is what inductive reasoning is all about. It is only a sin when it is excessive, like almost everything is detrimental if done to excess.
HYPERBOLE:
Actually, this is a sin throughout academia. For example, in 1968, Susan Sontag famously said, "The White Race is the Cancer of Human History."
I think that academia suffers from this affliction because a thesis is more apt to get attention if its is written in large and seething red letters.