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QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Hmmm - does a wife always have the last word? If so..... Amen!
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QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Ad asper per aspera... And the quality of Montana mud is much higher than that found in Kansas... [;)]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by cornmaze Next time you follow a "debate" on this forum, notice how many times you see the following logical fallacies committed. Argumentum ad hominem (argument directed at the person). This is the error of attacking the character or motives of a person who has stated an idea, rather than the idea itself. Red herring. This means exactly what you think it means: introducing irrelevant facts or arguments to distract from the question at hand. Straw man. This is the fallacy of refuting a caricatured or extreme version of somebody's argument, rather than the actual argument they've made. Often this fallacy involves putting words into somebody's mouth. *** hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore because of this). This is the familiar fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation -- i.e., thinking that because two things occur simultaneously, one must be a cause of the other. Argumentum ad nauseam (argument to the point of disgust; i.e., by repitition). This is the fallacy of trying to prove something by saying it again and again. But no matter how many times you repeat something, it will not become any more or less true than it was in the first place. Argumentum ad numerum (argument or appeal to numbers). This fallacy is the attempt to prove something by showing how many people think that it's true. But no matter how many people believe something, that doesn't necessarily make it true or right. Argumentum ad populum (argument or appeal to the public). This is the fallacy of trying to prove something by showing that the public agrees with you. Dicto simpliciter (spoken simply, i.e., sweeping generalization). This is the fallacy of making a sweeping statement and expecting it to be true of every specific case -- in other words, stereotyping. Tu quoque ("you too"). This is the fallacy of defending an error in one's reasoning by pointing out that one's opponent has made the same error. Argumentum ad ignorantiam (argument to ignorance). This is the fallacy of assuming something is true simply because it hasn't been proven false. Argumentum ad logicam (argument to logic). This is the fallacy of assuming that something is false simply because a proof or argument that someone has offered for it is invalid. source: http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html#Straw%20man
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QUOTE: Originally posted by cornmaze QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Jeeze, you guys need to learn how to read a graph...[:D] Mud-slinger! [8D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Jeeze, you guys need to learn how to read a graph...[:D]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by youngengineer Don't you know I'm perfect, and only I can see the light. My scientist is smarter than your scientist. LWR!!! and in conclusion, I stomp your argument into the ground, game, set, match. Any questions?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul Milenkovic Hope this is not too far off topic . . . There was this TV series called "Earth 2" a while back that didn't last too long. The idea was there was an Earth-orbiting space station with a lot of people on it from all of the World's countries, and the space station was kind of like its own pan-national nation-state -- it was Earth 2, meant to show people on Earth 1 how to live better by having people from all the different cultures get along, have better train service within the bounds of the station (OK, that was unserious). Anyway, Earth 2 was an Athenian-style democracy where important issues (like Amtrak funding) were all put to a station-wide D and D (discussion and decision) where anyone could speak up in a sort of video town-hall. The wrinkle was that they had computer "logic circuits" that put subtitles on the person debating -- if the person debating was making an emotional appeal based on the memory of their dead grandmother, the words "emotional appeal" would appear in subtitles so that the people participating in the D and D wouldn't be improperly swayed by an emotional appeal, this ruining this kind of democracy. Anyway, the one show was about how this new guy (some actor famous in the day) showed up on Earth 2, started calling for D and D's to move Earth 2 to become a nuclear power by confiscating an orbiting space weapon from some Earth 1 government, and was practicing on the logic circuits to hone his debating skills. I guess one is calling for "logic circuits" to add text to posts on this forum.
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
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