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[quote=Atla post_id=682825 time=1701666795 user_id=15497] [quote=Advocate post_id=682818 time=1701663220 user_id=15238] [quote=Atla post_id=682733 time=1701623164 user_id=15497] Whenever you see say a strawman, red herring or ad hom (which are usually deliberately disingenuous), you don't see the di...

[quote=Iwannaplato post_id=682778 time=1701637206 user_id=3619] [quote=Advocate post_id=682732 time=1701621774 user_id=15238] Being disingenuous is distinct from any specific fallacy bc literally anything can be messed up with intentional falsehood.[/quote]It's a pattern of specious, self-serving ex...

[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682734 time=1701624130 user_id=11800] [quote=Advocate post_id=682732 time=1701621774 user_id=15238] My point is simply that if a there are definitely false versions of a thing then there must actually be real ones too [/quote] You read it here first folks... the exist...

[quote=Atla post_id=682733 time=1701623164 user_id=15497] [quote=Advocate post_id=682732 time=1701621774 user_id=15238] Being disingenuous is distinct from any specific fallacy [/quote] Whenever you see say a strawman, red herring or ad hom (which are usually deliberately disingenuous), you don't se...

[quote=Iwannaplato post_id=682586 time=1701547604 user_id=3619] [quote=Advocate post_id=682572 time=1701540490 user_id=15238] That problem is people believing NTS is a logical false while it's not. People merely have different ideas of what TS is. [/quote]No, that's wrong on two counts. First, it is...

[quote=Wizard22 post_id=682278 time=1701422185 user_id=22733] [quote=Advocate post_id=469683 time=1599488299 user_id=15238] a) There is such a thing as a false Scotsman b) There is such a thing as a true Scotsman c) The end [/quote] Why was it a "problem" in the first place? [/quote] That ...

[quote=Atla post_id=682195 time=1701375998 user_id=15497] [quote=Advocate post_id=682186 time=1701375282 user_id=15238] All meaningful philosophy is linguistic. [/quote] :lol: Personally I think that people who think in language are disadvantaged in philosophy. It's limited and limiting. [/quote] If...

[quote=Atla post_id=682127 time=1701362477 user_id=15497] [quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682122 time=1701360620 user_id=11800] Except Wittgenstein was dismissing the Problems Of Philosophy when he suggested that none of them amounts to anything more than linguistic confusion. [/quote] On a side not...

[quote=Harbal post_id=681768 time=1701193226 user_id=9107] [quote="Trajk Logik" post_id=681759 time=1701190269 user_id=12607] [quote=Harbal post_id=681741 time=1701180813 user_id=9107] The no true Scotsman fallacy is not a problem, it is a technique sometimes used in argument, but it is a ...

[quote=phyllo post_id=681158 time=1700852204 user_id=9495]
Everything is a one-off event. It's impossible to replicate any past event.

The OP idea would turn all history and memory into fiction. :cry:
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Nothing replicates exactly. Lots of things replicate sufficiently. God isn't either.

Faith is belief without appeal to evidence. There can be no rational basis without evidence. 0 ignorance (certainty that you don't know) 1 found anecdote (assumed motive) 2 adversarial anecdote (presumes inaccurate communication motive) 3 collaborative anecdote (presumes accurate communication motiv...

[quote=Sculptor post_id=680865 time=1700605838 user_id=17400] [quote=Advocate post_id=680795 time=1700579036 user_id=15238] Gingers have high physiological sensitivity, perhaps other kinds. Being sensitive to change in a social or intellectual sense seems a natural correspondence, both of which are ...

•Illusion is a matter of physics.
•Delusion is a matter of epistemology.
•Hallucination is a matter of neurochemistry.

Gingers have high physiological sensitivity, perhaps other kinds. Being sensitive to change in a social or intellectual sense seems a natural correspondence, both of which are examples of intuition. In the MBTI, iNtuition corresponds to Openness in the Big Five model, both of which correspond to hig...

[quote=Atla post_id=677676 time=1699045896 user_id=15497] [quote=Advocate post_id=586999 time=1659202081 user_id=15238] Matter is high-entropy, entangled energy. Think of it as an eddy in a river. For a time it stabalizes and forms a coherent pattern at a higher level of analysis (ie. emergence). Th...