[Buddha-l] Re: Natural lucidity for Socrates

[Richard Hayes]

In responding to Joanna's question whether ati-prasanga was like what goes on 
on buddha-l, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> EXACTLY like buddha-l.

Dan seems here to be giving us an example of an ati-prasanga. Ati-prasanga 
simply means reaching a conclusion that is not warranted by evidence. While 
that does occasionally take place in some messages, it is going to far to say 
that it characterizes buddha-l as a whole.

It is refreshing to see Dan using ati-prasanga in some other context than his 
liberal employment of that fallacy in his analyses of Middle Eastern politics 
and his incessant claims that there is rampant worldwide anti-Semitism.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes