What is wrong with this sentence?

Francis Sedgemore, Friday 30 September 2011 at 15:39 UTC

From Norm, this afternoon…

“A couple of days ago a discussion took place on Twitter about whether one can differentiate amongst absolute moral wrongs, such that one might judge some of them worse than others.”

Clue: it has nothing to do with Professor Geras’ skill as a philosopher.


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Comments

  1. Anja

    “Differentiate between”, not “amongst”, right?


  2. Francis Sedgemore

    That is but a trivial error, of no real consequence. Can you not spot the absolute howler, Frau Professor Doktor?


  3. between the lines

    Can one have much of a discussion of this nature on Twitter has always been my question.

    Not sure yet.


  4. Francis Sedgemore

    …of any nature.


  5. between the lines

    So we have a new category of “Twitter skeptics”?

    Or are we all just “Twitter denialists”?

    http://www.capstrat.com/insights/blog/confessions-of-a-twitter-skeptic/

    Sy Taffel and others are talking about “the phenomena of ‘walled gardens in the global village’” at the Bristol Watershed soon … a genuine meat-space event, I gather!

    http://mediaecologies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/mcluhans-message/


  6. SnoopyTheGoon

    Ach, that was a good one, Francis.


  7. Francis Sedgemore

    Global village, or universal suburb?


  8. between the lines

    Cyber-ghettos of differently abled monkeys, more like.


  9. looby

    If they’re absolute moral wrongs (although that in itself is a vague phrase) then they’re not susceptible to differentiation by ranking.


  10. Francis Sedgemore

    That is one interpretation, though Norm doesn’t share it.

    But whatever, that is not the point I was making (which has nothing to do with Norm’s argument). I was referring to the oxymoron within the above sentence. Shameless Twitter-bashing, if you like.