Friday, June 23, 2006, 10:49:36 AM, one spoke:
I was, of course, merely teasing you for making a sweeping and
unsubstatiatable generalization ... but to say
D> Film-Philosophy avoids sweeping and unsubstatiatable
D> generalizations, whereas this is the meat of film criticism.
and then refer to
D> several articles in a recent aesthetics journal that purported to
D> be film-philosophy but were laced with generalizations that seemed
D> to me in principle unsupportable
would seem to amount to a "no true scotsman" argument, no?
--
Jim Flannery
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