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Re: Is white racism nec. all bad?
Rupert Ward (Rupert.Ward@ipg.UMDS.ac.uk)
31 Mar 1995 08:45:26 GMT
duke@snafu.win.net (Bill Duke) wrote:
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> In article <D67G8x.E7B@festival.ed.ac.uk: , Robert N Hawkin (ee4rnh@ee.ed.ac.uk) writes:
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> : : Needs more work. But be careful not to sneak in your own values into
> : : your definitions. So, when I asked you about revising the definition of
> : : stereotyping to read, "the tendency to *wrongly* lump...", ask yourself,
> : : WHO is to say whether someone else is wrongly lumping?
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> : "to wrongly lump" eh? God bless America.
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> : to pre-judge does not mean wrongly judge.
> : it means to form an unfounded judgement.
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> Mmmmm,...close. It means to draw a conclusion prematurely, without
> sufficient grounds for doing so, prior to considering relevant
> evidence.
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> A conclusion might be a prejudgment, and turn out to be
> well-founded.
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The preceding two sentences contracdict each other. It cannot be
"well-founded" and be drawn "without sufficient grounds". A *correct*
conclusion can be drawn without sufficient grounds but not a
well-founded one.
Rupe.
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