(urth) Severian's memory

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Wed Jul 29 00:54:20 PDT 2009


James Wynn wrote:
>> The narrator seeks to recall the incident and does so, but the effort 
>> produces a false positive that is duly recorded. This isn't a logical 
>> flaw, but one of woefully subjective methodology.
> 
> The logical flaw is his argument "I do not forget." which is based 
> (presumably) on a specific unsupported premise: "I would know if I had 
> forgotten something." This is the logical flaw defined as Begging The 
> Question.

Can you point to where he actually says something like this, please?

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