(urth) Severian's memory
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 19:09:08 PDT 2009
>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.
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