Re: Fw: incapable

From: James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 11:17:45 EST

Argument from personal experience, Sundeep, is more or less valid when
you think you're dealing with someone roughly capable of the same
experience. In other words, I don't think Scottie's a moron, so I
assume he's just not trying hard enough.

I suppose this experience is foreign to you, as you immediately grasp
everything you read?

Jim

Sundeep Dougal wrote:

>>My prose could be clear as glass but you'd still have
>>difficulty understanding it -- because the ideas are foreign.
>>I know because I still have the same
>>problem myself. I still often read people whose ideas
>>seem at least at first terribly different from my own.
>>
>>
>
>Interesting. Argument from personal experience? Surely, by this reckoning, a
>moron would be right in believing that his inability or slowness to grasp
>was shared universally?
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>>I do not, however, blame them for _my_ problems.
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>Er, but just assume that others are similarly afflicted, perhaps?
>
>Sonny
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