Everyone should read and understand this:
5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You ThinkI think they pretty much apply to everyone here, although some are more guilty than others. Do you think it would be helpful to have a list of common fallacies numbered on the comm user info so that we could just refer to that when someone commits
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http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ This link is apparently no longer available.
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And since that is like the worse thing that can befall a human, I demand you sooth my butt hurt
signed - white, hetro, paternalistic, better off than you
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I'm going to guess this was written by a psuedo-science academic who's never invented anything, started a business, or other activities where reasoning helps a great deal in finding better beliefs and making better decisions. Of course he's used resoning in his own life to do those things, but he has a theory. Perhaps he's projecting. We didn't make it to the top of the food chain simply because we could convince other people we were right.
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Back when evolution was still sculpting your ancestor's brains, admitting you were wrong to the person you were debating got you bred out of existence.
How? Do women avoid breeding with men who admit they are wrong?
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