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Re: Dixie Chicks
Does not this law professor understand that there is no logical connection between the validity of arguments that “some” made against the Dixie Chicks five years ago and the validity…
Formal fallacy
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You might be an angry progressive if …
You think slippery-slope arguments are always invalid on their face, but you habitually resort to argument ad hominem (i.e., “the fallacy of believing you have refuted someone’s argument merely by…
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Bad English, bad logic, bad policy
Let’s start with the increasingly common fingernails-on-the-blackboard phrase “speak to” as in this sentence from a recent editorial, “Federal, state and local money goes into a pool of funds out…
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Incentives pro and con
You may have heard the line that there are three types of people in the world, those who can count and those who can’t. Based on the lessons they have…
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Re: Bumper Sticker
All I can say, Michael, is thank God that’s a false alternative!
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Jon, you ignorant slut!
Jon, allow me to propose that the argument from this Havill chap, who’s apparently familiar with the duration of mental-rehab plans, is more precisely called argument via sputo. Here’s a…
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Re: Most scientific studies are wrong, study says
If not Yogi Berra, then Monty Python? GC: I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up…
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Re: Mom wins . . .
I like how diatribes filled with passionate expletives passes for civil disagreement. Also, notice that the issue shifts from your point that “more women are choosing not to abort,” to…
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not a logic professor
Today’s N&O has a letter from State’s hard-Left English professor Cat Warren, who cautions against accepting any of the ideas conveyed in the Pope Center’s recently commissioned report on the…
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Re: Reductio ad Hitleram
Aha! Fox News wins! Next topic, Ted.
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Duke prof responds to “intellectual diversity” challenge
“We try to hire the best, smartest people available,” Brandon [Robert Brandon, chair of the philosophy department] said of his philosophy hires. “If, as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people…