Fallacy

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• Ralph Wardlaw (1779-1853) on the Double Payment Fallacy

  
  Calvin and Calvinism — Authority: 121
  [This is tight reasoning and requires careful and attentive reading; see notes below.]Wardlaw:III. The third view, then, as has been already observed, holds the atonement to have been a general remedy, with a particular application; a vindication or display of the righteousness of God, such as to render forgiveness ...
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• Billy Jack as an Anarchist Metaphor

  
  EYEAM4ANARCHY — Authority: 91
  Recently after one of the organizing meetings for Food Not Bombs Las Vegas , Charles " Radgeek " Johnson and I engaged in a conversation with a friend who has attended the A-Cafe several times over the past few months. At one point, the issue of an Anarchist societys ability to defend itself against a statist ...
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• Fallacies offer cold comfort for cognitive dissonance

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 130
  “Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” ~ Mark Twain Twain’s wisdom came to mind as I read a recent article by new Dispatch columnist John Larson (another new club member; welcome!) about medical marijuana dispensaries. Near as I can tell, Larson ...
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• OReilly: We Should Win Hearts and Minds Because "We Cant Kill All the Muslims" [Logical Fallacy]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 868
  Tonight, in the midst of browbeating the media for missing the "all Muslims burn with hatred for America" angle of the Ft. Hood shooting story, OReilly terribly misinterpreted why were trying to win hearts and minds in the Middle East. Yes, Bill OReilly , the only reason were dicking around over there installing ...
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• We’re getting National Health Care, and we’re going to get it good and hard

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s not much of a debate anymore when the Republican lawmakers are arguing for socialism-lite and the Democrats are arguing for maximum strength ...
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• The sinister side of public policy.

  
  The Skeptic: Blog — Authority: 121
  On 1st November, following the sacking of Prof David Nutt , Ryan O’Meara , Editor-in-Chief of K9 Magazine , published the podcast below exploring evidence based policy. K9 Magazine podcast ...
  2 days ago

• Critical thinking basics

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 130
  An important part of being able to think critically is being able to spot logical fallacies, which are errors in reasoning. You need to ensure that you don’t use them in your thinking and debating, and you need to be able to spot them in other people’s arguments. The Nizkor Project, a web site dedicated to ...
  2 days ago

• Video: Soldier To Dr. Phil “Quit The “Psychobabble” & Deal With The Islamic Factor at Ft. Hood”

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Someone needs to tell this woman that she is no longer a POW.The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern: Person A has position ...
  3 days ago

• ‘Utopianism for the powerful’

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 130
  The Atlantic blogger Ta-Nahisi Coates reacts to cries of “bigotry” after the election results in Maine: Conservatives pride themselves on their skepticism, and generally dismiss liberals as soft-headed Utopians. But in so many ways, political conservatism is Utopianism for the powerful. It isn’t broadly ...
  4 days ago

• Thursday Evening Quick Hits

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 592
  The CBO scored the Republicans health care plan . They found it will reduce premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years. Liberals don’t like it because citizens will be required to take charge of their own lives. We can’t have that, now, can we? President Obama marked the one-year anniversary of ...
  6 days ago

• New Dimension in India’s Anti-Christian Violence Feared

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Concern grows that Hindu terrorists could become more apt to target Christians.PUNE, India, November 5 (CDN) — After the recent arrests of numerous Hindu terrorists for exploding bombs, authorities increasingly view Hindu rightwing extremists as a threat not only to Muslim and Christian minorities but also to ...
  1 week ago

• College Study Attempts to Link Payday Loans and Violence

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 613
  Remember, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation Is this person singing the inner city blues over payday loans ? Dont bet that its that simple. (Photo: flickr.com) Have you ever heard that statement before – that " correlation does not imply causation ?" What it means is that even if one can identify a ...
  1 week ago

• "Fast Cash is Bunch of BS" Says Waiting 123 Lump Sum Customer

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 132
  Reader Christina Storey writes "My husband is currently waiting funding from 123 Lump Sum. We started this process over a year ago. It finally went to court on Sept.2009. We got the approval and now almost 2 months later still not funded yet. Yeah their slogan fast cash yeah okay thats a bunch of bs. Anyone going ...
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• Bequeath Your Face Legal Effect

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 146
  Many populace in the world are nursing a fallacy around the wonderful innovation of medical science best known as cosmetic surgery or cosmetic makeover. It basically helps in offering new youthful, refreshing and normal look while rectifying your bodily formlessness. Most populace they think that the cosmetic ...
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• Karl Roves "Straw Man Watch" page

  
  Est Quod Est — Authority: 134
  Karl Rove is one of the smartest political guys out there. So its a good idea to take note of what he says, whether or not you agree with him on a majority of issues or whether or not you like him. I found this great page on his web site. Its a collection of President Obamas attacks on "straw men". Its worth reading ...
  1 week ago

• Pundits Fallacy of the Day

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 694
  Its indeed true that Galston not only doesnt seem to talk to any economists, but apparently doesnt talk to any other political scientists, most of whom would in fact tell him that making unemployment significantly worse in order to appeal to what voters answer about an abstract and isolated poll question would be ...
  1 week ago

• SEO Web Design: How To Use SEO Book Information

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 158
  SEO web design is essential for high search engine listings, and the right choice of SEO book can be use to achieve that. There are many SEO books on offer online, but most seem too much alike and appear to provide the same information. The best type of SEO book is one that provides graphic examples of how ...
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• Cross-cultural universals? that’s WEIRD!

  
  Feminist Philosophers — Authority: 434
  I think we can recover from the article linked to below an interesting and possibly new fallacy.  It’s the fallacy of inferring that a trait is universal from the  fact that it is found in college studients in WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich) socieities.  We can call it the Wierd fallacy. An ...
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• False Positives: A Round of Applause…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 466
  The anti-malware industry isnt a suitable environment for the thin-skinned. We get used to receiving "more kicks than hapence" (see http://www.virusbtn.com/spambulletin/archive/2006/11/vb200611-OK ).. In particular, Ive grown accustomed to the fact that many people expect all the following from an AV product: ...
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• Fight Logical Fallacies -- Eat More Halloween Candy!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  In Applied Intelligence , a book that I co-wrote with Robert Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko, we include a chapter on Inference and Inferential Fallacies. I also teach these in my Critical Thinking Class. Some of these are fun, like the Ad Hominem Argument. Those are in essence (incredible simplification here) calling ...
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