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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: January Surprise
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:01:25 +1100
Ah, you misunderstand. 
The fallacy is to do purely with the illogic of the claim that popularity is 
the sole arbiter. 
Matters of taste are a different thing.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion!"
"Possibly, and possibly not, but please don't change the subject!"

I know, it's a very fine line, but it is there.

Andrew Fildes
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On 31/01/2013, at 5:43 PM, Moose wrote:

> On 1/30/2013 10:05 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> It's the Democratic Fallacy - just because most people think it's good, that 
>> doesn't make it good.
>> Amazing how many people don't understand that.
> 
> Oh, My!
> 
> Gotta disagree. Taste is entirely arbitrary, a product of social custom, 
> norms, opinion. There is indeed often a 
> difference between the then current, largely inherited, taste of the elite(s) 
> and that of the hoi polloi. But neither is 
> an absolute.
> 
> Nor does/can an absolute exist, which says one thing, sound, etc. is somehow 
> inherently of greater value than another.
> 
> It is entirely possibly to make a correct statement  that I prefer one thing 
> over another, as long as that value 
> judgement is understood to be mine, or that of my family, tribe, class, etc. 
> etc.
> 
> Same fallacy that underlies so much religious dogma and practice, the idea 
> that who or whatever created everything 
> prefers some aspects of that creation over others, and bothers to reward or 
> punish some parts on the basis of what they 
> are or do.
> 
> At least believers in God or some other higher being/force, have an 
> apparently logical basis for their opinions, the 
> putative statements of their God. Those who do not believe in a supreme 
> being, power, whatever, have no basis whatsoever 
> for considering their tastes absolute. Other than egotism, personal or 
> collective, of course. :-)
> 
> I have strong tastes and opinions, but don't believe them to be absolute.
> 
> Absolutely Not Moose
> 
> -- 
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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