In an argument, the stasis can be considered the location of a dispute, the place where a speaker takes a stand.
This is vital to grasp. The best argument one can muster will fail when the other side places the discussion on the ground of their choosing. All too often we on the Left unthinkingly let the Neo-Lib/Cons establish the stasis. When we do that we give them an edge almost impossible to overcome.
But more to the point, we can go back to the conjecture question and ask, "What is actually happening?" And we can see that event as the reduction of harm to the woman, as an assertion of her moral right to freedom, as a lot of other things that have nothing to do with the definitional status of the fetus, which is dubious at best and which should not be allowed to trump every other consideration.
But the 'stand' here is esssentially owned by the engineers. You can't be me, I'm taken
Brilliant point about Modernism! Another one I shall steal ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
ie Definition in relative terms.
Damned if I know how THAT might work! "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
"Reality is defined by the questions you put to it". J A Wheeler
BTW I have to put you in the artistic engineer category. Sort of samurai. You can't be me, I'm taken
The logic of relatives, short for the logic of relative terms, is the study of relations in their logical, philosophical, or semiotic aspects, as distinguished from, though closely coordinated with, their more properly formal, mathematical, or objective aspects. The consideration of relative terms has its roots in antiquity, but it entered a radically new phase of development with the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, beginning with his paper "Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole's Calculus of Logic" (1870).
The consideration of relative terms has its roots in antiquity, but it entered a radically new phase of development with the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, beginning with his paper "Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole's Calculus of Logic" (1870).
I've been intending dip into this after the eleventy-million other things I have on my plate clear.
& You're Welcome.
In an argument, the stasis can be considered the location of a dispute, the place where a speaker takes a stand.,/i> This is vital to grasp. The best argument one can muster will fail when the other side places the discussion on the ground of their choosing. All too often we on the Left unthinkingly let the Neo-Lib/Cons establish the stasis. When we do that we give them an edge almost impossible to overcome.
Hey AT, I agree with you but choosing the location of the stasis doesn't mean ignoring the gross misrepresentations of basic facts by the rightwing when they state their storyline. In fact, despinning their framing as it occur may enable us to establish our stasis of choice. For example, in the other thread, I said that I couldn't understand how we could let rightwingers get away unchallenged with using "assistanat" in a public debate because it is devastating to let them pretend unopposed that their system favors "rewards according to merit" in opposition to the "welfare queens of the nanny state". Neolibs have been pounding this music for 30 years with great success also because progressives have ignored it. No mention of "assistanat" should be permitted without a discussion of "corporate welfare" and the cost of toilet sits sold by Halliburton.
