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REDUCTIO AD SOMALIA: ?This post by Michael O?Hare is an example of the sort of rhetoric that seems?

By Glenn Reynolds

REDUCTIO AD SOMALIA: “This post by Michael O’Hare is an example of the sort of rhetoric that seems appealing–nay, irrefutable!–when you are crafting it over drinks with like-minded friends, and that falls entirely flat when you deploy it against people who don’t share your priors.”

We see a lot of those — surprisingly from the people who claim to possess a keen awareness of nuance, and who charge others with “epistemic closure.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).