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logical fallacies....
Jun. 5th, 2004 10:34 amkeep a copy of this checklist around and refer to it during the next presidential speech. you might be surprised just how illogical he really is...or you might not.
b.t.w., my earlier "proof by repeated assertion" discussion is listed here as "Begging the Question", and the phrase "Sound Science" is listed under "From Ignorance" [if you haven't proved it to be an absolute FACT, it's not true yet. This either ignores, or takes advantage of, the scientific position that all science is statistical approximation, even when it comes down to something as simple as e=mc2, and nothing is truly "fact" in any absolutist sence].
b.t.w., my earlier "proof by repeated assertion" discussion is listed here as "Begging the Question", and the phrase "Sound Science" is listed under "From Ignorance" [if you haven't proved it to be an absolute FACT, it's not true yet. This either ignores, or takes advantage of, the scientific position that all science is statistical approximation, even when it comes down to something as simple as e=mc2, and nothing is truly "fact" in any absolutist sence].
