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Dictionary Lesson (Free verse) by Dovina

When I said, “I love you,” and soon realized its reciprocal, “You love me,” and its result, “We are in love,” and much later, with its contrary, “I don’t love you,” and finally its opposite, “I hate you,” and when, after a long hiatus, its many reverses blured into, “I have no feeling for you,” I realized my dictionary is a history, written ahead of fact, a compendium of devolution.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 21-Nov-04/3:30 PM
You're thick, and you don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. Q: What premises are 'put forward' in this poeme, and what are the conclusions made? A: There aren't any. The entire thing is a report of the author's experience, which at best comprises a single premise. That this poeme is stuffed full of pseudo-philosophical quackisms doesn't somehow mean deduction is involved.

I predict you will argue "But the author has reached a conclusion (that her dictionary is a history, etc.)" However, *reporting* on one's reaching a conclusion (as is done here), without arguing for it, is not at all the same as putting forward premises and using rules to transform the premises into a conclusion. And it's only in the latter sense that philosophy could be said to be involved.




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