[Pen-l] Re: hegemony

["Sabri Oncu" <sabri.oncu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shane:

> But a single instance disproof works only against a *universal*
> statement (one put in terms of "all" or "none")  It does not work
> against a *generalized* statement (one put in terms of "most all" or
> "very few").

Precisely! That was what I had been trying to say! Nothing more!

So, we better be very careful with making *universal* statements and
my recent objections to Carrol were because of that!

He was falling into the same trap he was objecting to, although his
intentions were good. People like me are called "anal" in this
business, to mean that  we are unnecessarily analytical, in my wishful
thinking, of course. Who knows, maybe they mean something else by the
word "anal," but I am too naive to know what it means, or so I
pretend!

Best,
Sabri
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