[ExI] Use of Irony, or Miscommunication? (Was Re: Global Temperatures to Decrease)

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 17:04:52 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
>  There were two steps in what I posted.
>
>  The first was to point out *from your own source* that what you were
>  citing made exactly the *contrary* argument to yours.
>
>  The second, bracketed after my name, was ironical: a sort of
>  equivalent bogus "argument" proving that traffic on highways is
>  slowing down. What my sarcastic counter-example tried to undermine
>  was the structure of inference in Lee's post.
>


This reply is so ironical, it has become post-ironical, gone into
another universe and come back round the other side.


BillK



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