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bignick said:and tries to pretend he's not a troll...:burp:
drink up
I still fail to see how I'm the one anthropomorphizing here.Patrick Skerry said:Hi IamBaytor:
The Anthropomorphic fallacy in logic is to attribute human qualities to either animals or material objects. To prefer a white gi over a blue gi, or to claim the superiority of a white gi is nothing more than that. The mere suggestion or entailment of a human connotation to a white gi is committing the anthropomorphic fallacy. So don't anthropomorphasize.
It is my opinion that the blue gi is an abomination, no human qualities are prescribed. No anthropomophic inuendoes or suppositions in that opinion.
'OH MY GOD' - IT'S WEARING A BLUE GI!IamBaytor said:I know, I know...
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You have not yet seen the light. The Blue Gi is just one more example of the moral decay of American Society. First pornography, then gay marraige and now the BLUE GI. Arguing with a true believer is always fruitless.IamBaytor said:Still waiting for an answer to my question. How is calling a blue gi an abomination not anthropomorphizing?
Because I wasn't giving a blue gi human qualities, that is why. The adjective 'abomination' is used to describe any grotesque abnormality, it is not delegated only to humans. Try looking it up in Fowlers, OED, Websters, Funk & Wagnall's, American Collegiate dictionaries, or any of the myriad dictionaries floating around in your local library.IamBaytor said:Still waiting for an answer to my question. How is calling a blue gi an abomination not anthropomorphizing?
I'm willing to accept that there is more than one way to define abomination. However, there is still this:IamBaytor said:I could make a comment about people who think that, "If it ain't white, it ain't right." But I'll refrain.
I made an assumption that you were interpreting my white gi preference along racist lines, which I took offense and puzzlement, since a bleached white gi has nothing to do with human skin color; and I am not a racist in any sense of the word. You were also very off topic. So by the rules of Parlimentary debate - I win! White gi's rule!!!IamBaytor said:www.dictionary.com
or, more directly
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=abomination
It comes from the following source:
WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University.
As I said, I can accept that there is more than one definition, but my question stands. How was my statement anthropomorphizing?
THE FUTURE GOLD MEDAL IN OLYMPICS FOR SPORT JUDO!IamBaytor said:I see. You assumed that I was comparing you to intollerant, ignorant, sad little minded humans. What I was really compaing you to intollerant and inflexible people who think that they are better than others becuase of what they wear, rather than how they train. Oh yeah, and I think you are a troll.
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