Re:Einstein's Science Defied Nationalism and Crossed Borders
by deogeo on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @06:49PM
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> Such a logic would probably be expressed explicitly if it was key to the message.
Not if you don't want the audience to critically examine it. Commercials don't say "product X will give you a happy family" - they just happen to show a happy family using product X.
Re:Einstein's Science Defied Nationalism and Crossed Borders
by PavlovsCat on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:27PM
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The subject is Einstein. The Darwin quote also fit perfectly to humanity being "just one big tribe", and both quotes expand that to sentient beings. That was my point, not "yeah, Darwin also said something similar and is also considered important, so it's double true".
I'd be happy for you to critically examine both, and express any issues you have with the actual content of the quotes. But you're not doing that, you're doing anything but that. That's not my intention, that's your choice.
Quotes can be used to show that past generations have said similar or relevant things
Quotes can be used because they were interestingly or eloquently phrased
Quotes can evoke someone's connection to a subject without relying on an appeal to authority.
Probably the last thing I'd assume is that someone is seriously positing the quality of an argument based on who said it. Such a logic would probably be expressed explicitly if it was key to the message.