From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 20:05:49 MDT
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> Steve Davies writes
>
> > To be really pedantic (but also precise) for a moment - I think the
> original
> > poster should have had "why anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction
> in terms".
> > *Not* the same thing as an oxymoron! Thinking of it that way also
> makes it
> > easier to see what the argument is about, i.e. it's about the
> definition of
> > the two constituent terms "anarchy" and "capitalism". Either or
> both of
> > these can be defined in a way that makes their conjunction a CIT
> but if so
> > you should be explicit and honest that that's what you're doing.
>
> Doubtless; but it's also news to me that the claim is imprecise.
>
> Now dictionary.com supplies
>
> ox·y·mo·ron Pronunciation Key (ks-môrn, -mr-)
> n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons
> A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or
> contradictory terms are combined, as in a
> "deafening silence" and a "mournful optimist".
>
> [Greek oxumron, from neuter of oxumros, pointedly
> foolish: oxus, sharp; see oxygen + mros, foolish, dull.]
>
> Would you mind explaining exactly why "anarcho-capitalism"
> is *not* an oxymoron given that the original poster believed
> it to be a contradiction in terms?
I can't speak for Steve (nobody can), but anarcho-capitalism's status
as an oxymoron or not is immaterial to the original posters
demonstrated lack of ability to comprehend commonly accepted defintions
of commonly used words.
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