Re: Speak Your Truth
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:36:49 +0200
Message-ID: <413ce682$0$78749$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> Laconic2 wrote:
>>mAsterdam wrote: >> >>>No! "*my* view" (emphasis mine). >>>One of the (your) purposes of talking EDS vs IDS was to get >>>the discussion out of this them vs. us tone, right? >> >>I need to clarify something here. When I used the phrase "my view", I did >>NOT mean "My opinion about what the correct view is".
Hmmm.. full disclosure: IDS is also my homebase.
> While there is a danger in becoming overly convinced of one's own
> opinions, there is another danger in the opposite direction: becoming
> overly weak about holding one's own opinions.
>
> In fact, even the phrase "in my opinion" serves no real purpose.
> Everything everyone says everywhere is their opinion. That is,
> they are describing the truth as best they understand it. (Unless
> they are explicitly hypothesizing.) Any leading "I think that..." can
> be omitted, because it is redundant.
> The best thing for a debate is when all participants speak
> the truth as they understand it.
Bold, Popperian falsifiable statements.
> As an exercise, read the version of this post below the
> signature, and tell me if it is any better than the actual
> post.
>
>
> Marshall
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>
> While there is a danger in becoming over convinced of one's own
> opinions, it seems to me there is another danger in the opposite
> direction: becoming overly weak about holding one's own opinions.
>
> In my opinion, even the phrase "in my opinion" serves no real purpose.
> I believe that everything everyone says everywhere is their opinion.
> It seems to me they are describing the truth as best they understand it.
> (Unless perhaps they are explicitly hypothesizing.) I think that
> any leading "I think that..." can be omitted, because it is redundant.
>
> I believe the best thing for a debate is when all participants speak
> the truth as they understand it.
This version also suffers from discarding the dialogue, the dialectic power of the medium newsgroup/mailinglist. But yes, even compensating for that, it sucks IMNSHO :-) Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 00:36:49 CEST