Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:26:49 12/12/98
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Hi Oliver: I do not understand your demand of academic credentials and/or publications. Was I stating a formal thesis about this issue? And more important: Do I need to show some formal acedemic acreditation first to make some statements and/or developing a reasoning? I thought that a reasonning was valid or invalid by itself, without any weight given to the quality of the guy that do it. To do this last thing, to talk about who the guy is that is saying something is, as you surely remember, a fallacy of logic called "authority fallacy". Perhaps a very natural one between academic people. They tends to develope some arrogance, to believe that his titles give them some a priori superiority in the matter of his craft. Well, thats' no so. A degree only means that there are some chances that the owner of it will have a sound judgement about some field of knowledge, nothing more. It does not means the owner of no tittles in that special area automatically lose his right to reason, think and state his observations about the matter. Any case, sir, I have a title in sociology in the University of Chile, books published in poetry, literature, journalistic essays, I write several political sections in magazines and newspapers and I run several TV programs related with the same suff. I do not know if these last things means something or not to add to my professional trainning as sociologist, but I presume that at least is enough to be in condition to deserve an answer about this or any matter. And just in case you demand to know also my I.Q in order to continue our discussion or not, it is 143. Not the great thing, but enough I presume to win or keep your attention. So I hope. Fernando
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