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To: adiaireton8; Dr. Eckleburg
But all "evidence" must be rightly interpreted. (Since you don't believe in interpretation, you frequently misinterpret things.)

Such a defense is a non sequiter in itself. The "right interpretation" has to be interpreted itself, namely by each party who inquires of it after the fact. This is necessary, and should be expected due to each/any/all language/time/location/culture/education differences and displacements that fall between the original interpretation and the subsequent audience.

It's simply not factual, nor logical, to claim that personal interpretations aren't needed (or even that they don't occur) following a "right interpretation", nor to claim that no personal misinterpretation can occur during the transmission of a previous "right interpretation".

332 posted on 05/18/2007 12:43:05 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (FR Member Alex Murphy: Declared Anathema By The Council Of Trent)
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To: Alex Murphy
Such a defense is a non sequiter in itself.

Only arguments can be non sequiturs. So which of my arguments was a non sequitur?

The "right interpretation" has to be interpreted itself,

You just stepped into an infinite regress, for now the right interpretation of the right interpretation must be interpreted, and so on ad infinitum.

But I never used the term "right interpretation". I said that evidence must be "rightly intepreted".

It's simply not factual, nor logical, to claim that personal interpretations aren't needed (or even that they don't occur) following a "right interpretation",

I never claimed that personal interpretations are not needed or don't occur following a "right interpretation".

nor to claim that no personal misinterpretation can occur during the transmission of a previous "right interpretation".

I never claimed that either.

-A8

333 posted on 05/18/2007 12:49:14 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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