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• in Gaming
  Myths of the Game Pre-order
  It's less about the game and more about our ego.
  by jwalk6 / on Sep 18, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “fallacy”

 

• The Attractiveness of Etymology

  
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  The etymological fallacy is one of the most well known fallacies in biblical exegesis. In fact, many people “know” it who don’t understand it. I was reminded of why etymological explanations are attractive this morning as I was reading Isaiah in the LXX. I came to the word “toparcos” in Isaiah 36:9. Now I ...
  5 days ago

• Article: The Spiderman Fallacy by Robin Schumacher

  
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  In this featured article , Robin Schumacher tells about a conversation he had with an atheist: " An atheist that I was dialoging with last week tried to support his disbelief in Jesus through the use of the “Spiderman fallacy”, which is a contrived argument that has been defined in the following way by Urban ...
  1 week ago

• Flatland, The Black and White World

  
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  You’re for us or you’re against us.  People are good or evil.  We serve God or Satan.  Many people prefer the simplicity of true/false and either/or choices to the subtlety of an essay question or even the slightly elevated risk of a multiple choice quiz.  It’s easier to follow a checklist (which is ...
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• Irrefutable Evidence Shows That Anti-Vaccine Activists Still Have No Clue

  
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  Intellihub is an online “alternative” news site that claims to provide “independent news for independent minds” founded by Shepard Ambellas. The background story is already cliché: mainstream media are somehow controlled by evil corporations and Intellihub wants to “inform” people what is really going on ...
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• The Taxicab Fallacy

  
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  Leibnizs Cosmological argument is as follows: 1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. 3. The universe exists. When one claims that premise 1 is true of everything in the universe, but is not true of the universe ...
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• King K.O.N.G – Kreator Of The New Generation

  
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  King K.O.N.G is a Long Island-based lyricist and on his latest project, entitled Kreator Of The New Generation, he delivers dark, edgy and hard hitting joints from start to finish. One of the handful of dope emcees I stumbled upon via Soundcloud, his unique flow and delivery is akin to his moniker and this project ...
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• The Bastiat in a 7-Year-Old Boy

  
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  Conversation with my son Arnaud, age 7, last Sunday during lunch: Me: "You know son, theres this great French economist Bastiat , he writes some cool stories, I think youd enjoy reading his books." Arnaud: "Oh yeah?" Me: "Yes, kind of like Aesop fables [which he loves]. But his stories are real ones, about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Don’t Overestimate What You Can Do Today

  
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  Monday motivation, or all over the place? I remember reading an article a little while back discussing what is known as the Planning Fallacy, or, in other words, mistakenly assuming that you can get way more work done than you are consistently capable of. “Oh yeah, I’ll finish the grocery shopping on the way ...
  2 weeks ago

• Don’t Trust Your Feelings: Somatics and the Pre/Trans Fallacy

  
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  A great article applying the pre/trans fallacy to somatics and body-work. Steve Bearman brings some much-needed balance to the alternative healing field. via Interchange Counseling : It’s easy for counselors, and the people we counsel, to get stuck in our heads. Counseling as we know it originated as “the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Don’t Trust Your Feelings: Somatics and the Pre/Trans Fallacy

  
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  A great article applying the pre/trans fallacy to somatics and body-work. Steve Bearman brings some much-needed balance to the alternative healing field. via Interchange Counseling: (Read more…) It’s easy for counselors, and the people we counsel, to get stuck in our heads. Counseling as we know it originated as ...
  2 weeks ago

• A fallacious versus a proper use of ad hominem argumentation

  
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  This picture describes how some people argue. Today I want to show an example of a fallacious use versus a proper use of ad hominem argument. Ad, Add What? The phrase “ ad hominem ” comes from the Latin, “against the man.” It is a logical fallacy when an argument ends up being a personal attack on ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Food Speculation Nonsense

  
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  acting-man / By Pater Tenebrarum / May 30, 2013 A Popular Economic Fallacy There is one economic fallacy that enjoys extremely high popularity in Germany. TV stations and newspapers alike regularly report on it, politicians feign outrage at it, and many financial institutions involved in it are too spineless ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chit-Chatter: Miguel Stands By His Comments About Hatin’ Azz Black People – “We Tear Each Other Down More Than Any Other Race”

  
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  Miguel Stands By His Comments About Black People Earlier this week, R&B panty leg dropper extraordinaire Miguel went on a Twitter rant about how black people are the most judgmental people in the world who have been programmed to hate themselves. And while he faced much backlash from his fans and the black ...
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• Marin General Hospitals Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients .. CEO Cites Defective HHS Paper and Red Herrings As Excuse Why He Knowingly Allows This To Continue

  
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  - Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on May 30, 2013 - The following appeared in the Marin County Independent Journal about an EHR system so bad the nurses at Marin General Hospital were publicly complaining, putting their careers at risk (see my May 17, 2013 post " Marin General Hospital nurses warn that new ...
  2 weeks ago

• Neither the Beginning nor the End — Remember the Middle: List of Biases in Judgment and Decision-Making, Part 12

  
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  It’s Monday, so you know what that means — another cognitive bias! This week, I thought I’d combine two because they’re essentially two sides of the same coin. They are: the primacy effect and the recency effect . Believe it or not, these biases  are just what they sound like. The primacy effect is the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Research on Female Sex Offenders

  
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  To make up for some lost time we have added 4 more studies to the Bibliography pages.  Those studies are: Cortoni, F., & Gannon, T. A. (2013). What works with female sexual offenders. In What works in offender rehabilitation: An … Continue reading →
  3 weeks ago

• quote of the day – me

  
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  Hey, it is my site, so I can claim I said something worthy of note. Regular readers will know that I generally try my best to eschew logical fallacies, not just because they are fallacies, but also because they are so often – and so ineffectively – wielded against us and our rights. With that in mind, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• OSSA Day 1: Andrew Aberdein Fallacy and Argumentational Vice

  
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  Andrew Aberdein, of the Florida Institute of Technology, argued that if good arguments are virtuous, then bad arguments are vicious.  The problem is that arguments are tokens, not dispositions.  Side note: we here at the NS stress this fact in our general disclaimer on bias.  We diagnose individual argument tokens, ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Self" Is a Misnomer

  
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  The “self” may appear to act alone but it depends on input from other selves... read more
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• Less Is More: The Halo Effect & Green Lumber

  
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  It is often said that system traders spend too much time attempting to perfect entry and exit points. What if we expand that idea and take a look at whether or not we are putting too much effort into all of our trading efforts? There is more to be learned from actually trading than is taught in classrooms. You can ...
  3 weeks ago

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