hermeneutics

Music: The Chameleons: What is the Meaning of Anything, Basically Shaun forwarded along this link to a column from The Daily Tar Heel, along with the invitation to have a field day finding fallacies. It is, I agree, a good article to teach in undergraduate classes: not only can you work some wonders here with informal logic, but you might further encourage the dialoguing on race in the classroom.

The sad thing is that I’ve heard members of my own extended family say such things at dinner tables. It is astonishing, too, how these sorts of widespread beliefs escape media scrutiny (as if they do not exist . . . Trent Lott, anyone? Barbara Bush? Our President?).