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April 30, 2021

The Lesser Known Logical Fallacies.

If you’ve ever taken a logic and critical thinking course, you’ll have learned about logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are patterns of bad reasoning that occur so often they’re given their own special names. Ad hominem arguments are directed at the person holding a position rather than at the position she holds. Ad populum or ‘bandwagon’ Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric

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April 3, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. So … what did you do?

So … what did you do? I broke the Law of the Excluded Middle. Continue reading

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February 1, 2021

Thoughtlets. xxxix.

One [wo]man’s ambiguity is another’s certainty. And vice versa. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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January 12, 2021

‘Freedom’ is Not a Well-Formed Formula

Freedom! is a common rallying cry that some pledge to fight to the death to defend. And do. So it might be a tad unseemly to point out that ‘freedom’ is not a well-formed formula. By which is meant ‘freedom’ requires an indexical, as in freedom-to and freedom-from. And then to-what and from-what or from-whom, Continue reading

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December 12, 2020

Thoughlets. xxvii.

Two SJW slogans are: Silence is Violence and Words are Violence. If silence is violence, then one must speak. But words are violence. If words are violence, then one must be silent. But silence is violence.To avoid absurdity, the SJW must stipulate that Some Silence is Violence and Some Words are Violence – neither of which make great slogans. But which silence is Continue reading

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September 28, 2020

Thoughtlets .xviii.

Words such as ‘matters’, ‘dangerous’, and even ‘good’, require an indexical, by which is meant these words require a to or a for. Once you flesh in the indexical you open questions such as why, how, and so what? Some don’t think to ask these questions, others don’t want them asked. Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets