Then say "Your argument does not address the logical basis of my position. You are only expressing your preference, your psychological predelection, d...
There is only one true logical fallacy - the Logical Fallacy Fallacy. It is using the term "logical fallacy" without understanding the underlying basi...
Thank you for refusing to let this stupid discussion end. It's good to help recuperate from the past week. Just to remind everyone. /uploads/resized/f...
It is well known that, when your mashed potatoes don't taste quite right, you just add more butter. ***Warning*** Does not work on powdered mashed pot...
Two issues: That wasn't a plastic bowl, it was my favorite orange porcelain bowl given to me by my son for Christmas. Last seen in the "Beautiful Thin...
Right "per serving." Generally, serving size on food packaging is about half of what a normal person usually eats, e.g. Progresso soup - one can equal...
My father tried to teach me to play poker. Unsuccessfully. He always used to tell me "the cards play themselves." You judge a poker hand by what's sho...
I'm feeling pretty down. I think for lunch I'll make what my mother used to make me for my birthday - velveeta macaroni and cheese and barbecued hot d...
I thought when you said "cheese" you meant velveeta until I was 12. Although, we never had velveeta. We had chedobit, which was A&P's cheap velveeta k...
There's a little known provision of the federal criminal code. It's perfectly legal to use any drug as long as you cover it with certain cheeses - bri...
Let's apply the justified true belief (JTB) standard, which is a bunch of bullshit, but easy to apply here. In order to know that I know p, the follow...
TimeLine and Baden are both my friends. Both have stood up for me. No one may use what happened in the racism discussion that I was involved with agai...
As I told @"Baden" at the time, I felt very supported by him during the discussion you are describing. What meant the most to me was, although he was ...
I was thinking of starting up a thread with just that as the subject - The Logical Fallacy Fallacy questioning the value of the idea of logical fallac...
The forum means a lot to me and I love it. I haven't had a place like this where I could think big thoughts with other people since college in the 197...
Here's what I wrote: I said your criticism of me is not credible, not that you aren't. If you want to redefine "ad hominem argument" as "something I d...
The author of the article at your link writes: We’ve seen that it’s important to distinguish first-personal from third-personal morality: questions of...
From Wikipedia: Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereb...
First of all, it wasn't an ad hominem attack at all. Ad hominem means an attack against an irrelevant personal characteristic for the specific purpose...
I will plead nolo contendere to a charge of misdemeanor hypocrisy. I like to talk about civility but I also like to call people names sometimes. I usu...
I wasn't thinking of it as materialistic or mechanistic. I just don't think we are empty boxes that can be filled with whatever we want to put in ours...
We humans have characteristics that make us human. Those characteristics limit what we can do. What is Corolla-nature? Runs on wheels. Engine needs fu...
Let's say I go to the Toyota dealer and buy a new Corolla. Will the car fly? No. Is there anything I can do without making it into something other tha...
I've worried you have too much going on in your life to put in as much effort as you have as a moderator. So, part of me thinks this is a good thing, ...
Really? I have always thought of Self-Reliance as epistemology. How do we know what's true or false. Right or wrong. Look to your own judgment. Maybe ...
I don't get it. You clearly know that what you write will hurt people. You clearly do it for just that purpose. What's in it for you? What do you get ...
The quote is from "Self-Reliance." Here's another which summarizes Emerson's thoughts in the essay: To believe your own thought, to believe that what ...
This is Woody Allen: “There's an old joke - Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is ...
This is a link that @"praxis" provided three weeks ago which talks about death rates among white men. I think these are the guys you are talking about...
Yes, I am aware of that. I still think the way the issue was framed demonstrates an underlying contempt and fear of men. On the other hand... I'm stil...
I'm not that civil. Are you big enough to beat me up? I knew what you meant. So, you seriously think that me calling you a name is worse than you cond...
Such irony. You show your opposition to the "culture war" by demonstrating your scorn for the "warriors" on the other side. Then you tell us how to se...
From what I've seen, it doesn't seem that many Trump supporters fall into the alt-right category. Does anyone have specific information about this. Al...
This is a terrible, disrespectful discussion. Several weeks ago we had a thread about relationships between women and men where I said that our societ...
The Galapagos has an aggressive pig eradication program to remove all pigs remaining from the days of human settlement. The pigs have been responsible...
I found the book much more compelling. In the book, Marlow was a motionless point of decency in a swirling cesspool of death and corruption. For me, t...
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