The fiend approves (tfa).
Or so I surmise.
ja
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From: "Dylan Harris" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: Is the Avant-Garde a "Marketing Strategy"?
Sorry, can't resist ... :-)
On 11 Jul 2011, at 03:22, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
> I do think you're confusing intellectual argument with marketing. They
> are not quite the same thing.
Yes they are!
Intellectual argument is a form of reasoning: reasoning evolved to persuade
people, according to psychologists:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1698090
General discussion here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to-win-scholars-assert.html?_r=1
Marketing, according to google, is "The action or business of promoting and
selling products or services". (google result for "definition of marketing";
your results might vary). That's persuading people. That's the same thing.
I'll point out that those papers suggest that since reasoning evolved to
persuade, rather than find the truth, it follows that flawed reasoning is an
adaptive skill, so that anyone who suggests my argument is flawed is
bolstering my point.
:-)
Dylan Harris
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