(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

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To ask the answer to questions that have already been answered is a
rhetorical tactic typically used with hostile opponents.

It is typically used by lawyers examining witnesses with an audience
consisting of the jury.

Juries, as is notorious, are selected for stupidity.

You trick your opponent into saying something false.

You get him to confirm that he believes what he said.

You then proceed to falsify the false belief to which he has committed
himself.

This impresses idiotes etc.

By using this tactic you are telling your interlocutor(s) that you believe
(that) t(he)y is/are stupid.

Do you in fact believe that the people you are talking to are stupid?

Do you, as I suspect, believe that you are much more intelligent than the
general run of people on this mailing list?

Or is it just me and a few others that you feel superior to?

.


> Meaning, returning from the past. Right?
>
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> Because Wolfe told us how people become curators. Because that system
>>> did not exist in the early 20th century.
>>>
>>
>> Well, he related how they become librarians. IIRC, curators also oversee
>> the Botanical Gardens. I don't see that the Book of Gold would
>> particularly attract kids suitable to gardening.
>>
>> It's not hard to imagine the Vizier and Master Hangsemstrait returning
>> from some obscure province with a flierload of "newly rediscovered"
>> paintings and a surplus apprentice.
>>
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