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In Reply to: This one's easy. posted by Jim Austin on October 15, 2005 at 08:40:25:
["The issue is that many of us are taking a middle ground, with a skeptical, reasonable confidence in both science and our own subjective experiences."]I'm not sure about "the issue", the perception "many of us", or how being skeptical and confident positions one in the "middle ground".
["And as we do so, some people are always trying to shove us out of the middle, to one extreme or the other. In recent months on this forum I've been lumped with the scientific objectivists (by bjh, john curl, charles hansen, etc.) and with the radical subjectivists (I don't remember by whom, but it was because I dared to question the efficacy of double-blind testing)."]
Let's say that "us" is really 'you', I don't think the misunderstood moderate role is flattering.
["What's especially interesting about the preceeding post is its insistence on preserving a dichotomy. "Stop trying to find common ground," the poster is saying, in effect. "Just accept that people are different." "]
It seems you are projecting an idealistic middle ground philosophy.
["And the reason for this is clear: it's because the extreme subjectivist perspective is insupportable against a moderate perspective..."]
If your moderate perspective can't shelter extrermist, why would they go there?
["It's only in contrast to the other extreme position that either extreme position seems reasonable. I think they call it a straw man."]
I think they should call these new middle ground folks straw men.
["BOTH points of view described here, EMS and iml, are caricatures, even if the poster relates to one of them, as seems to be the case."]
A flair for the obvious is not a salient point. The initial poster clarified this particular issue in a follow-up post.
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Follow Ups
- Your synopsis is cryptic. - soulfood 21:13:03 10/15/05 (0)
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