steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
It is like diarrhea,you hope it ends but it keeps on coming.
Your above cited bizarre remark was in response to me saying that "your polemic is a possibility so long as the emotive possibility is not established as fully accounting for the manner of expression which you refer to as polemic."“Emotive” is not an alternative that must “fully account” for the text before any other function can be actual
One problem for your attempt at thought production is the fact that "emotive" is also functional.“Emotive” is a tonal label; “polemical” is a functional label.
Your above cited bizarre remark was in response to me saying that "your polemic is a possibility so long as the emotive possibility is not established as fully accounting for the manner of expression which you refer to as polemic."
Notice that "your polemic is a possibility" before I even get to bringing up "the emotive possibility". Your polemic is a possibility by virtue of being an interpretation which is not unreasonable prima facie. (Whether the polemic possibility is worth pursuing is an issue which you have thus far refused to consider.)
It was noted earlier that Paul's words which you refer to as polemic are just as recognizable as being emotive.
Being a devotee of compartmental-thinking, you think your following remark is in some way important, but it is not, and it is erroneous besides:
One problem for your attempt at thought production is the fact that "emotive" is also functional.
If it is possible that the words referred to as "polemic" are "emotive", then it is possible that those words as emotive were used for emotional release.
That means the emotive functions (or can function) to provide emotional release.
It is possible that Paul used the at issue words emotively.
It is possible that Paul used the at issue words polemically.
The emotive can affect expression widely such that what seems polemic might actually be emotive without actually being polemic even if seeming - from some perspective or other - to be polemic.
It is possible that Paul used the at issue words emotively but not polemically.
If Paul used those words emotively and not polemically, then the polemic attribution does not refer to the actuality of how those words were used, and the polemic would not be actual.
If it is established that Paul used those words emotively and not polemically, then the polemic is not actual, and the emotive is actual (assuming that the emotive and the polemic together exhaust the relevant possibilities).
If it is not established that Paul used those words emotively and not polemically, then the polemic is possible, and the emotive (along with the emotive-and-not-polemical) is possible.
For so long as it is a possibility (which has not been established as an actuality) that those words are used emotively and not polemically, it cannot be established that those words are actually polemic (by virtue of the aforementioned emotive wide affect).
For so long as it is a possibility (which has not been established as an actuality) that those words are used emotively and not polemically, those words are still possibly polemic by virtue of an interpretation which is not unreasonable prima facie and because those words have not been shown to be both actually emotive and not polemic.
My logic is fine.
Your logic is flawed.
How is polemic less useful as a possibility rather than as an actuality?
Polemic seems just as useless as an actuality as it is as a possibility.
What is the difference?
Why does it matter?
You are wrong.You’ve built a false precondition.
If the emotive is present - and it most definitely is and has most definitely has been established as present and actual in Paul's letter, then because the emotive can envelop the polemic, it is possible (it is a possibility) that the emotive fully accounts for the words referred to as constituent of the polemic possibility.“Emotive” does not need to “fully account” for the text before any other function can be actual.
That does not even come close to establishing why it matters.It matters because Paul’s origin claim—“not from man … through revelation”—is deployed within that polemical machinery as a warrant against rivals.
You are wrong
If the emotive is present - and it most definitely is and has most definitely has been established as present and actual in Paul's letter, then because the emotive can envelop the polemic, it is possible (it is a possibility) that the emotive fully accounts for the words referred to as constituent of the polemic possibility.
If the actual emotive is not established as being a full-account emotive, then the emotive in itself, despite being actual, does not displace/replace/eradicate the polemic possibility.
The emotive full-account-possibility, for so long as it remains merely possible, is sufficient to prevent logically a conclusion of polemic actuality.
This means that, logically, the emotive full-account-possibility need not be established as full-account-actuality in order to block establishment of polemic actuality.
If the actual emotive is not a full-account emotive, then the emotive in itself, despite being actual, does not displace/replace/eradicate the polemic possibility.
Since an emotive full-account-actuality would displace/replace/eradicate even the polemic possibility (and, hence, polemic actuality), in order for the polemic possibility to be established as/transformed to polemic actuality, it must be established that the emotive is not a full-account-possibility.
Whether the emotive, despite being actual, is not established as being a full-account emotive or whether the emotive is not a full-account emotive, there remains polemic possibility along with emotive actuality.
There is no doubt that there is emotive actuality in Paul's letter. It has not been established that the emotive actuality is a full-account actuality, and this fact is what leaves room for the polemic possibility which would not remain even possible were it to be established that the emotive actuality is a full-account actuality.
But, as already noted, the emotive full-account-possibility need not be established as full-account-actuality in order to block establishment of polemic actuality.
That does not even come close to establishing why it matters.
It does not matter because there is no doubt that Paul provides actual reasoning "against rivals". Even if Paul resorts to polemic, he is not solely polemical.
If "courts and historians" were to ignore the fact that Paul actually supplies reasoning, then were they to conclude that Paul in his letter is only polemical, the "courts and historians" would be illogical for having ignored evidence that was available to them.
If "courts and historians" were to ignore the fact that in his letter Paul is actually emotive, then were they to conclude that Paul in his letter is only polemical, the "courts and historians" would be illogical for having ignored evidence that was available to them.
If "courts and historians" were to ignore the fact that it is a possibility that the emotive envelopes/subsumes the polemical, then were they to conclude that Paul in his letter is actually polemical, the "courts and historians" would be illogical for having ignored evidence that was available to them regarding the very nature of the emotive - such as how the emotive by its very nature can render erroneous the polemic interpretation which itself is the basis for polemic possibility.
On the other hand, were the "courts and historians" to conclude that Paul in his letter is possibly polemical, then their logic would be fine with regards to the fact that Paul provides actual reasoning and with regards to the fact that, while the emotive is actual, the emotive subsuming the polemical is possible but not established as the very actuality which would preclude even the polemic possibility.
Your logic is flawed, and you polemic still seems to be of no importance in itself, and you have not shown how the polemic - even if it is a fact and actual - relates significantly or extensively to any other matter.
False.You keep claiming that because an emotive reading is possible, we cannot classify the text’s polemical function as actual. In any public method
It is possible for the viable emotive possibility and the viable polemic possibility to be non-overlapping.Emotion can co-occur with polemic
It is possible for the emotive possibility and the polemic possibility to be overlapping. In the case of overlapping, it is asymmetrically possible that the emotive envelopes/subsumes the polemic.it does not “envelop” it in a way that dissolves observable polemical acts.
The so-called "polemical operations" are present via interpretation.because the polemical operations are present, the classification is not merely possible, it is instantiated. Your own concession that emotion does not displace polemic undermines your attempt to block polemical actuality. ... modal fallacy.
Possibilities are "classifiable".uneliminated logical possibilities do not block actual classifications grounded in observed discriminators. If they did, nothing would ever be classifiable.
You have shown no such thing. You have only treated the emotive as non-overlapping with the polemic.We do not have to prove emotion is not “full-account.” We only have to show that the polemical model better fits the operations on the page than an emotive-only model. It does.
False.since the polemical markers are present, we have polemical actuality
Whoever are those "we" might not, but you are halted by that "possibly". I have repeatedly told you that you do not need that "possibly" logically transformed to "actually", but you insist on achieving "actually" illogically instead of proceeding with the "possibly", and you illogically insist on illogically referring to "possibly" as "actually".We do not halt at “possibly.”
Horrifically bad reasoning on your part.Its importance is direct and concrete. First, it fixes the burden of proof for Paul’s origin premise: if he uses “not of man … through revelation” to trump rivals, that premise must be supported by public discriminators or it has no standing as warrant.
More horrifically bad reasoning on your part.Second, it constrains how we read his anathematizing of contrary “gospels”: without evidential support for the origin premise
False.Third, historically, the origin claim is how Paul displaces Jerusalem-based human authority in favor of his message’s independence.
False.
I say that in the presence of the emotive, since the emotive - via observation and experience - is known as a possibility which can envelope/subsume asymmetrically the polemic, or, to put it another way, since the emotive can asymmetrically fully account for what is otherwise interpreted as polemic, the polemic cannot logically be demonstrated to be actual for so long as the emotive full-account-possibility remains viable.
Your appeal to authority - which is precisely all that your "public method" is - has absolutely no force against the logic.
You are the one who mistakenly thinks the actuality of the polemic is important. By your reasoning, this means that logic places upon you the burden of proof that, in the Paul case, the emotive is not a full-account-possibility.
By my reasoning, you can shuck that burden of proof and proceed with polemic as a possibility rather than as an actuality, and that will make no difference to anything - as will be shown below.
But the choice is yours: be illogical by insisting without being able to demonstrate logically that the polemic is actual, or prove that the emotive is not a full-account-possibility, or proceed with the polemic as a possibility.
It is possible for the emotive possibility and the polemic possibility to be overlapping. In the case of overlapping, it is asymmetrically possible that the emotive envelopes/subsumes the polemic.
If the emotive envelopes/subsumes the polemic, then the polemic "dissolves" as illusion, an erstwhile reasonable interpretation which turned out to be mistaken.
If the emotive enveloping/subsuming possibility is viable - for instance, if that possibility is viable but not demonstrated to be the case - then the polemic logically can be held to be possible.
The so-called "polemical operations" are present via interpretation.
A reasonable interpretation positing polemic is put forth logically as the polemic possibility.
That interpretation remains reasonable insofar as the viable emotive full-account-possibility is ignored.
That interpretation remains reasonable for so long as the emotive full-account-possibility is viable and not demonstrated to be present.
That interpretation remains reasonable as polemic possibility.
That reasonable interpretation is illogical if viable emotive full-account-possibility is ignored.
That reasonable interpretation is illogical if the polemic possibility is claimed to be polemic actuality in the presence of viable emotive full-account-possibility.
The presence of the emotive full-account-possibility blocks the logical transformation from polemic possibility to polemic actuality.
Ignoring the emotive full-account-possibility does NOT instantiate the polemic actuality.
The "modal fallacy" at hand is your claim of polemic actuality, because the still viable emotive full-account-possibility blocks the logical transformation from polemic possibility to polemic actuality.
Possibilities are "classifiable".
A possibility is "classifiable" as polemic.
Polemic is "classifiable" as possibility.
Polemic is "classifiable" as actuality.
Etc., etc.
You are wrong. Yet again
You have shown no such thing. You have only treated the emotive as non-overlapping with the polemic.
That is only one of the possibilities regarding the relationship between the polemic and the emotive.
You have not addressed the other possibility wherein the emotive and the polemic overlap.
False.
The presence of "polemical markers" provide for polemic possibility. You have not addressed the possibility of emotive and polemic overlap. Therefore, via "modal fallacy", you are illogical in claiming polemic actuality.
Whoever are those "we" might not, but you are halted by that "possibly". I have repeatedly told you that you do not need that "possibly" logically transformed to "actually", but you insist on achieving "actually" illogically instead of proceeding with the "possibly", and you illogically insist on illogically referring to "possibly" as "actually".
Horrifically bad reasoning on your part.
I will assume as fact (for the sake of discussion, of course) that Paul in his letter exhibited and expressed actual polemic, an actual appeal to authority.
Below, I will only refer to polemic as actual.
Below, I will only treat polemic as actual.
It was previously noted that appeal to authority can be appropriate.
It was previously noted that appeal to authority can be inappropriate.
Appeal to authority without an accompaniment of provided reasons is more inappropriate than an appeal to authority with an accompaniment of provided reasons.
Paul provided reasoning, and that reasoning was not dependent on an appeal to authority; therefore, the appeal to authority in Paul's letter is more appropriate than would have been that appeal to authority without there also being provided reasoning.
But, let the appeal to authority be isolated.
Let the appeal to authority be regarded as inappropriate.
So what?
That inappropriate appeal to authority affects what?
It certainly does not affect the reasoning which is wholly independent of the appeal to authority.
“Lalalalalala - I CANT HEAR YOU!!”A mere possibility does not defeat an otherwise well-supported classification.
You have shown no such thing. You have only treated the emotive as non-overlapping with the polemic.
That is only one of the possibilities regarding the relationship between the polemic and the emotive.
You have not addressed the other possibility wherein the emotive and the polemic overlap.
False.
The presence of "polemical markers" provide for polemic possibility. You have not addressed the possibility of emotive and polemic overlap. Therefore, via "modal fallacy", you are illogical in claiming polemic actuality.
Whoever are those "we" might not, but you are halted by that "possibly". I have repeatedly told you that you do not need that "possibly" logically transformed to "actually", but you insist on achieving "actually" illogically instead of proceeding with the "possibly", and you illogically insist on illogically referring to "possibly" as "actually".
Horrifically bad reasoning on your part.
I will assume as fact (for the sake of discussion, of course) that Paul in his letter exhibited and expressed actual polemic, an actual appeal to authority.
Below, I will only refer to polemic as actual.
Below, I will only treat polemic as actual.
It was previously noted that appeal to authority can be appropriate.
It was previously noted that appeal to authority can be inappropriate.
Appeal to authority without an accompaniment of provided reasons is more inappropriate than an appeal to authority with an accompaniment of provided reasons.
Paul provided reasoning, and that reasoning was not dependent on an appeal to authority; therefore, the appeal to authority in Paul's letter is more appropriate than would have been that appeal to authority without there also being provided reasoning.
But, let the appeal to authority be isolated.
Let the appeal to authority be regarded as inappropriate.
So what?
That inappropriate appeal to authority affects what?
It certainly does not affect the reasoning which is wholly independent of the appeal to authority.
More horrifically bad reasoning on your part.
In the remark quoted immediately above, you are treating the polemic as if Paul were only polemical.
But, by your own admission, Paul was not only polemical.
By your own admission, Paul provided reasoning.
Paul's reasoning explains the "anathematizing" in terms of that righteousness which is wholly incompatible with the position(s) of the rivals.
The polemic does NOT constrain you. You constrain you when you only consider the polemic as if Paul were only polemical. You are not so constrained when you consider the polemic and the reasoning provided.
False.
You are again treating the polemic as if Paul were only polemical.
But, by your own admission, Paul was not only polemical.
By your own admission, Paul provided reasoning.
The reasoning in terms of righteousness is what "displaces Jerusalem-based human authority".
Even with the polemic as actual, your entire argument flails and fails because you are illogical.
You are illogical when you treat Paul's letter as if it were only polemic.
Since you deny Paul's letter was only polemic, and since Paul's provided reasoning is shown to eviscerate all importance from the polemic, there is still the question regarding to what the polemic is at all relevant.
The actual polemic as you have addressed it is utterly unimportant and utterly irrelevant. And, yet, you are obsessed with the polemic to the point of effectively being blinded by that obsession.
You are irrational no matter how the polemic issue is approached.
“Lalalalalala - I CANT HEAR YOU!!”A mere possibility does not defeat an otherwise well-supported classification.
- Every theist confronted by that fact.
If you are familiar with emotion and, thereby, the emotive, if you have experienced the emotive as the prime generator for the manner of an expression, then you have all you need with regards to an emotive full-account-possibility.You keep asserting a “full-account” possibility without supplying the account.
The same is the case with similar references to physicists with regards to matters of physics, or to physicians with regards to medical matters, or to lawyers with regards to matters of the law. They are all appeals to authority.Public method is not appeal to authority; it is appeal to intersubjective checks.
The emotive has been observed.Possibility talk doesn’t overturn classification based on observed operations.
I have no need for "dissolution" of the polemic. The emotive full-account-possibility (for so long as it is viable) is sufficient to logically block demonstrable transformation of polemic possibility to polemic actuality - even if the polemic is actual.To claim “dissolution,” you must show
The evidence-basis is reasonable as the interpretation putting forth polemic possibility.A merely “viable” alternative does not defeat an evidence-based classification.
False.From “possibly emotive-only” you infer “not actually polemical.”
And that is what has been done. The document is possibly polemic. The document is possibly emotive. The document is possibly reasoned. I have also established the document as actually emotive. I have also established the document as actually reasoned. Although the document has not been established as actual polemic, I did also consider the document as actual polemic.Classifying abstract possibilities isn’t the task; classifying the document’s observable operations is.
That is not the issue. The issue regards the possibility of an overlapping that is enveloping.I have said repeatedly that emotion and polemic are not exclusive and can be concurrent.
You are wrong yet again.You are misusing modality. Uneliminated logical alternatives do not prevent actual classification where the discriminating features are observed.
Your "is polemical" is ambiguous. That was indubitably established many postings ago. You acknowledged as much, but here you are in desperation mode and trying to get a few additional gasps of air by going back to trying to stand on the unsupportive soft and shifting sands of the ambiguous.“Could be emotive” does not erase “is polemical,”
False.Once you accept that Paul actually deploys an appeal to authority—“not from man … through revelation”—inside a real polemic against named rivals, that move enters public space.
False.In public argument, each premise that does argumentative work must clear its own bar.
You have conceded.Courts, historians, and sciences treat unsupported authority the same way: they assign it zero evidential weight and proceed on the claims that are testable.
Given the established irrelevance of the polemic, the so-called historical question is no less irrelevant.It matters to the historical question
Paul's reasoning is what supplies warrant against his rivals. The polemic is irrelevant to that.It matters to the polemical moment itself: a curse or exclusion pronounced on the basis of a non-human warrant is illegitimate absent public support for that warrant
If "you allow" someone to put forth an unsubstantiated claim that falls within a context which includes reasoning that renders the unsubstantiated claim irrelevant and ignorable, you in no way "erase" reasonableness or an expectation of reasonableness.And it matters to method: if you allow unsupported origin claims to stand just because other, independent reasons exist, you erase the distinction between faith profession and public warrant.
I have said that the viable emotive full-account-possibility blocks the conclusion of actually polemical.That’s a textbook modal error: confusing “possibly also emotive” with “therefore not actually polemical.”
That's what God told me!What Paul taught, claiming divine inspiration, is the flawed work of a flawed man.
Yet another misrepresentation by you.Michael keeps trying to hide. In our exchange he concedes the letter shows the very things that define polemic—naming rivals, refuting them, directing the audience, and, crucially, deploying “not of man … through revelation” against “man-taught” emissaries—then he insists that because an “emotive” reading is possible, polemical actuality can’t be affirmed.
That's a lie. I have said that the viable emotive full-account-possibility blocks the conclusion of actually polemical.That’s a textbook modal error: confusing “possibly also emotive” with “therefore not actually polemical.”
And yet another misrepresentation by you.When I state the standard discriminator rule an observation is evidential only insofar as it bears differently on competing hypotheses—he tries to redefine “evidence” as whatever sits inside someone’s “understanding,” making public assessment parasitic on inner states.
Ah, but yet more lying by you. The fact that you are an inveterate misrepresenter/liar does not justify your lying/misrepresenting. Be that as it may, what your modicum of intellect (if it is even as much as a modicum of intellect) is incapable of realizing is that since polemic is widely known to not always be intended for reception as if well and tightly reasoned and, so, is not expected to be anything like an actually reasoned argument, it is at least an error to think "public assessment" is certainly rational when "public assessment" requests or demands that the polemic be justified by evidence - such as by evidence of divine inspiration. And given that polemic is not primarily reasoning, then, when there is polemic alongside reasoning independent of the polemic, it is absolutely irrational to demand, in the Paul case, evidence of divine inspiration. The only rational approach in such an instance is to consider the provided reasoning first so as to determine whether the polemic is at all relevant since the irrelevant need not be addressed at all once irrelevance is apparent. The only thing which distinguishes your irrationality from insanity in this case is the fact that your evidential argument is a ruse. Consequently, you are not insane. Rather, you present yourself as a person who is disinterested in the understandings of other persons; you are a person inclined to misrepresenting/lying about what other persons say, and you unashamedly prefer resorting to ruse over honestly and honorably developing your intellect.my position stands and Michael’s evasions possibility as veto, redefining evidence as inner state, and re-labeling polemic as “mere emotion”—do not.