(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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