@joefromchicago,
joefromchicago wrote:
OCCOM BILL wrote:
joefromchicago wrote:
Cycloptichorn wrote:
Quote:Why do I think he is a nutcase? Because he is.
This is a Tautology, Okie. You didn't provide any proof to back up your opinion, but instead asserted the validity of it without providing any details.
That's not a tautology. That's an
ipse dixit.
Actually, it's neither. It is the man's opinion...
What makes you think that an
ipse dixit can't be an opinion?
I didn't say an ipse dixit couldn't be an opinion. I said that opinion wasn't an ipse dixit. It was Okie's reasonable opinion... which is clear because immediately after the text quoted by Cyclo, Okie wrote, "just my opinion, you are free to disagree." This is obviously no claim of authority, and
no rational person would confer an authority onto Okie in general. (You’d have a point if Okie hadn’t disclaimed his opinion as such; but he did.)