Miscellaneous

Defining The Term Carter Corollary For Future Discussion (and Posterity): Something Texas Fred wrote today gave me an idea for a shortha...

Defining Some Argumentation Fallacies: Though argumentation fallacies are a subject that has been covered many times at Rerum Novarum (an...

Clarifying My Policy Viz. Private Correspondence: Strangely enough, Rerum Novarum is fast approaching its 1800th posting and the subject ...

A Key Principle For Rational Argumentation: In the wake of the Rathergate scandal, there was a group of people who sought to argue along tw...

I have referred to the principle of McElhinney's Media Dictum explicitly in the past eight months at my weblog Rerum Novarum . This is...

The Process of Attempting to "Refute" a Theory or Thesis in a Piece of Writing: Often do we hear of a person or party who is beh...

I used the term a couple of times on my main weblog so it seems appropriate to add it to the defined terms if you will. The term being refer...

Defining the Terms "Theory" and "Thesis": Though I have utilized these terms in this manner before, I have never explici...

Confuting a Common Error of Self-styled 'Traditionalists': The following is one of the very few new sections written for the thi...

On the Use of Labels: Some have inquired as to my bringing up at times the fact that I transcend being easily "categorized." Indee...

The Definition of a True Conservative: The longer I have involved myself in dialogues, the clearer it is to me that there is a provincial na...

For those who read previous versions of the work I am about to refer to (either the one released on June 6, 2000 or the one from December 28...

Clarification on My Use of Terms: One thing I will not compromise on is my use of the term 'traditionalist' in the fashion where...

Profession of Faith: I, Shawn McElhinney, with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the symbol of faith: namel...