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** [http://www.anthonyflood.com/moleskiretortion.htm "Retortion: The Method and Metaphysics of Gaston Isaye."] | |||
** [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-009-3551-8_13#page-1 "The Role of Retortion in the Cognitional Analyses of Lonergan and Polanyi."] | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_reference ''Wikipedia,'' "Self reference."] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_reference ''Wikipedia,'' "Self reference."] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems ''Wikipedia,'' "Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems."] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems ''Wikipedia,'' "Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems."] | ||
[[Category:Epistemology]] | [[Category:Epistemology]] | ||
Revision as of 15:23, 25 March 2014
Retortion is the act of identifying a self-referential contradiction in an opponent's position.
So, for example, if I were to write, "No one can type a coherent sentence in English," a thoughtful critic might retort: "But what you just wrote provides evidence against what you claim to be true."
Retortion is spelled "retorsion" in French. The idea of turning an opponent's self-referential contradictions into a reason for rejecting the position is common among Transcendental Thomists, who used various forms of this argument to demonstrate the instability of Kant's epistemology.
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