Actually thinking about it more, I beleive that it is just a load of rubbish.

It is an attempt to make a science out of human expression and belief, something utterly immpossible. It seems to be used to simply shut down diologue between two people. As hardly anyone takes philosophy, when compared to other subjects, so you are left with a group of people whom when they engage in arguments attempt to make use of a non-universal and minorative form of thinking, and they do, in my nast experiance yesterday, use it to shut down every decent debate, on the grounds that you are not conforming to their pattern of logic.

Its completely absurd.

of coarse this was after s nasty clash with some big headed twenty two year old in my class. So I am completley biased.