As it turns out, the Ripper Cabal is real...it's just not who you thought it was

[Abby Normal]

The new members may not get it, Ally, so for their benefit I looked up the first use of Cabal here on the Casebook Message Board.

It was way back in March of 2008, in a thread called The New Vogue featuring:

the Suspended Gideon Fell
the Banned Cap'n Jack
the Inactive Aspallek
along with Smiling Dan Norder
and a few survivors like Robert, Mike & Howie.

But yes the poster who first spoke of the Cabal was .............drumroll...................

... the Suspended Mr Poster. Here is the post that launched a thousand tickets to nowhere when in reply to Dan he said:


http://forum.casebook.org/showthread...=4806#post4806

wasnt Gideon Fell --Stewart Evans in disguise?

[PaulB]

Hello Mr. Begg. Delighted so to do.

Reason, itself, is objective. It admits of certain deductive inferences (Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, Disjunctive Syllogism, etc); ways of calculating inductive inferences, and so on. Moreover, this canon of rationality is open to all, and able to be applied uniformly. In a word, it is "objective."

Unfortunately, we, as human beings, ofttimes misapply reason. When forging a chain of, say, inductive reasoning, we allow weak links, redundant ones, and so on, to make up that chain. With this human element, the way that "reason" is applied is now tweaked to fit an individual in a specific set of circumstances. Hence, "subjective."

Cheers.
LC

Hi Lynn
That's what I thought you meant, but isn't that why we test those links as best we can with the materials at our disposal?

[Wolf Vanderlinden]

wasnt Gideon Fell --Stewart Evans in disguise?

Yes, he was.

Wolf.

[lynn cates]

ought

Hello Mr. Begg. Thanks.

Well, we certainly ought to in order to be responsible members of the epistemic community.

Cheers.
LC

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