Indeed, and that is why it’s wrong to say that attempts to rationally justify statements about reality are “almost certainly going to produce an ad hoc Just-So Story”.
That’s not what I said.
I have no interest in helping to generate a Gish Explosion. Please confine yourself to addressing arguments I actually make, rather than straw men.
But perhaps you are saying that the sentence I’ve embedded it in does not reflect what any thing you said? If so, it’s not mean to—it’s describing the point I was making, and to which your response included that quoted text.
Essentially, my last comment was trying to point out what I’d originally said had been misinterpreted in the Just-So Story bit, even though I didn’t do a great job of making this clear. Of course you may argue that you didn’t misinterpret me, but I certainly wasn’t trying to put words into anyones mouth.
Just to start off, the quoted text is something you said.
No, the quoted text includes a fragment of what I said. Your statement about what I said is wrong as a whole.
it’s describing the point I was making,
The point you were making has nothing to do with the discussion that’s going on. That’s called a non-sequitur, and it’s a traditional rhetorical fallacy.
That’s not what I said.
I have no interest in helping to generate a Gish Explosion. Please confine yourself to addressing arguments I actually make, rather than straw men.
I’m not trying to be a jerk. Let me try to explain things, as I don’t think I communicated my point very clearly.
Just to start off, the quoted text is something you said.
But perhaps you are saying that the sentence I’ve embedded it in does not reflect what any thing you said? If so, it’s not mean to—it’s describing the point I was making, and to which your response included that quoted text.
Essentially, my last comment was trying to point out what I’d originally said had been misinterpreted in the Just-So Story bit, even though I didn’t do a great job of making this clear. Of course you may argue that you didn’t misinterpret me, but I certainly wasn’t trying to put words into anyones mouth.
No, the quoted text includes a fragment of what I said. Your statement about what I said is wrong as a whole.
The point you were making has nothing to do with the discussion that’s going on. That’s called a non-sequitur, and it’s a traditional rhetorical fallacy.