Mbeki Tells It How It Is
Regular readers will recall Mrs Thatcher explaining monetarism.Seems as if Cde Mbeki has been taking clarity lessons from the great dame. In this week's ANC Today, the President explains the compatibility of vast job losses and grinding poverty with a glowing assessment of the ANC's economic record
"In other words, with reference to the paradigm of simple logic, a specific progression from the particular to the general has sought to present a general picture that is putatively consistent with the particular, but is, in fact, inconsistent with the overall general reality. "Read Mbeki's fuller thoughts on logic
here.




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Okay, so he's saying very generally that it is possible to make inaccurate generalizations if you do not have sufficient data.
Yes. In general.
But what political point was he trying to make with this? Coz I'm sure with this complicated sounding generalization, he was indeed trying to befuddle us (he may think 'dazzle us') while nudging us along to accept some particular (not general) political agenda.
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