Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to...
by revolvingocelot on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:04PM
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Refusing to bow down to false premises is not claiming to be an expert on anyone's motives, but I sure think that insisting that false premises disguised as hypotheticals are meaningful contributions to support any conclusion is wrong as hell. That's right, I said it -- defending a conclusion based on made-up facts is wrong as hell. Yes, I'm willing to die on this hill, I guess I'm just old-fashioned in my desire to discuss reality...
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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to...
by ajuc on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:25AM
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Do you believe there's a last prime number? Do you accept Gödel's incompleteness theorems?
Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to...
by revolvingocelot on Monday December 05, 2022 @01:56PM
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Do either of those rest on "defending a conclusion based on made-up facts"? I don't think, say, proofs-by-contradiction are really comparable to the bad-faith "let's say, hypothetically" argumentative style under discussion.