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Thread #97110   Message #1915024
Posted By: autolycus
20-Dec-06 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: Debating with deniers
Subject: RE: Debating with deniers
Thanks for that,McGrath.

Did you Google that to find it?

Otherwise,I think those posters who said in effect, engaging
with them is a waste of effort, are right.

An interesting spin-off, for me, is the question of the human
habit of being immovable about something in one's world or
one's thinking, other than something like 1+1=2 (and I'm not sure
how many of THOSE there are.) A lot to do with the objective/subjective conundrum,I suspecy. There's a good picture
of it in the last juror to hold out in the film 12 Angry Men.
There were two people in a minority of one in the film, him, and Fonda soon after the beginning.

Perhaps we can rely on the truth that "truth will out."

Still, mental or psychological immovability is an interesting matter to consider.

(Oviously a book here. But surely it's been written.)






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