Re: 911 STUDY

[Dan Scanlan <dscanlan@xxxxxxx>]

"Conspiracy" is a loaded word and should be dropped from this
discussion in order to keep clarity. After all, when a Girl Scout
Troop holds a bake sale, a "conspiracy" can be said to have occured.
I suggest the more operative words, "plan" and "analysis" be used.

In the present instance, qualified, experienced pilots analysed what
little information they have about the events of 911 -- they bounced
their personal knowledge off reported facts.  The events of 911
themselves were the result of a plan.

By chucking the efforts of the pilots into the catch-all "conspiracy"
bucket, the underlying issue gets pettifogged away.*  "Conspiracy
theorists" is heavy in intensional meaning and meager in extensional
meaning, to use S. I. Hayakawa's phraseology.

Much of what we know about the world -- from the existence of Pluto
the planet to the personality of Pluto the dog -- has come from
deductive reasoning. The case of 911 requires a great deal of
deductive reasoning as well as the fitting together of known pieces
of a broken mosaic.

Whatever practical moves a citizen makes today hinges heavily on
deductive reasoning. A corollary challenge is to keep the loaded
words of the media (including email forums) from skewing the swing.


Dan Scanlan


* Mixed metaphor? Once you set sail in a metaphor you shouldn't swap
horses until you at least get to the end of the sentence.




> >  >The lack of information available regarding 9-11 creates fertile ground
> >  >for conspiracy theories.
> >
> >  That is because a coverup is itself a conspiracy and is also
> >  presumptive evidence that at least one prior conspiracy
> >  is being covered up.  Hence the liberal use of disinformation
> >  to obstruct effective investigation of that which is being
> >  covered up.
> >
> >  Shane Mage
>
> ===============
>
> Reads like and infinite regress problem common to conspiracy
> theories...............
>
> Ian

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