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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4100562" data-attributes="member: 15538">Hegel believed this, but he had his own peculiar approach to logic which I assum you are not intending to emulate.I'm not going to debate Hegel with you. I am going to lay out this challenge: demonstrate that to be familiar with a book you must read it. Specifically, that to be adequately familiar with a book you must read it completely. This is the hidden premise.Notice that &quot;adequately familiar&quot; seems to mean about the same thing as &quot;able to pass judgment.&quot; And judgment seems to include &quot;able to decide whether to read something.&quot;That is why ths argument is circular. Watch what happens when I use this sense for familiarity. Without the ability to pass a judgment on the book without reading it, we get the following:You cannot declare whether something is worth reading without reading it. If something is worth reading, you should read it. If something might be worth reading, you should not, not read it. Therefore, if something might be worth reading, you should read it. Therefore, everything is worth reading, including things that are not worth reading.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4100562, member: 15538"] [i]Hegel believed this, but he had his own peculiar approach to logic which I assum you are not intending to emulate.[/i] I'm not going to debate Hegel with you. I am going to lay out this challenge: demonstrate that to be familiar with a book you must read it. Specifically, that to be adequately familiar with a book you must read it completely. This is the hidden premise. Notice that "adequately familiar" seems to mean about the same thing as "able to pass judgment." And judgment seems to include "able to decide whether to read something." That is why ths argument is circular. Watch what happens when I use this sense for familiarity. Without the ability to pass a judgment on the book without reading it, we get the following: You cannot declare whether something is worth reading without reading it. If something is worth reading, you should read it. If something might be worth reading, you should not, not read it. Therefore, if something might be worth reading, you should read it. Therefore, everything is worth reading, including things that are not worth reading. [/QUOTE]

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