From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 12:34:39 MST
In my view, a large part of the `Iraq' exchanges on the list are already
meta: they are disputes about the kinds of evidence that one can bring to
bear upon a real-world problem, the kinds of reasoning deployed, the success
and failures of logic, analogy, metaphor, etc, the clouding or biasing of
judgment driven by preconception, affiliation, narrow self-interest and
mental/emotional legacy codes.
Of course, attempts to engage in such meta discussions under the
circumstances of a specific real-world problem are almost inevitably bound
to go toxic. But if not then, when? If not us, who?
Damien Broderick
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