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To: Right Wing Professor
"Her example was Proudhoe Bay"

Exactly, she was not restricting the class to DDT effects, and your lame attempts to pretend she must have meant to are entirely your own. She was speaking of the resilence of birds as a class, to environmental disruptions as a class. And your trying to pretend that means she called bald eagles rats - when she neither said it nor implied it - is simply bad faith and the fallacy of division.

Which everyone knows including yourself, and which you were called on instantly and correctly.

341 posted on 06/08/2006 9:11:12 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: JasonC
She was speaking of the resilence of birds as a class, to environmental disruptions as a class

You keep repeating that. Bald eagles are an instance of the class of birds. Bald eagle mortality from DDT is an instance of the class of environmental disputions. Bald eagles are therefore part of the intersection of the two sets. The logical relation of the resilience of birds as a class to environmental disruption as a class can only apply to the intersection of the two sets, since otherwise one or the other does not apply. Ergo, bald eagles are indeed what she was referring to in 'birds are like rats'.

And your trying to pretend that means she called bald eagles rats - when she neither said it nor implied it - is simply bad faith and the fallacy of division.

Attempted 'proof' by repeated assertion of a fallacy. Tiresome and very dumb.

342 posted on 06/08/2006 9:19:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...I'm dancin' right there with you, Iraqis.)
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