Recent content by Cassiel

Actually, begging the question is a valid form of argument, not a formal fallacy. It may be annoying to people who disagree with you, but that's another issue. Given your insistence on logical discourse, I thought you should know this. There is a bit of question begging in The Serge's argument...

What is the purpose of correcting someone's spelling, however? Do you do it because it's the easiest thing to catch someone on? I have two points in signaling the errors in your post above: the first is that in each case I know what you mean to say--there's no ambiguity, so no reason for me to...

I think that's one of the problems. The veneer of courtesy, with its undercurrent of "I know more than you do," is probably the thing that gets me most about ENWorld. I've been visiting this site since I believe 1999, and have racked up in that time maybe 300 posts under 4 or 5 different...

Sounds fun. I've also got my hands in Aquinas, Augustine and some lesser-knowns on theories of hypostasis and consubstantiality as (a small) part of a paper on Joyce (I'm reading them in postmodern contexts, so more time is given to the larger projects of hermeneutics in Nietzsche, Heidegger...

I don't think it was ever the longest sentence, just the one that ran on without punctuation the longest. Plenty of classical manuscripts could give it a run for its money in that regard. My favorite is probably the "I...AM. A." from Nausikaa. Oxen of the Sun is a good episode too though!

Come on now, if you're going for great sentences with him, go for the gold. Err, blue.

Your belief in an ideal game, called "Mage: The Ascension," for which there is a "correct" interpretation under which every statement in every book can be fully reconciled to every other statement in every other book, is deeply ironic, considering the nature of the setting.