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Using Latin terms doesn’t change the fact that your argument is intellectually dishonest. Name a single, unqualified societal benefit to a one year leave.
by perfmode 8y ago
Using Latin terms doesn’t change the fact that your argument is intellectually dishonest.
Name a single, unqualified societal benefit to a one year leave.
- tathougies 8y ago> Using Latin terms Reductio ad absurdum is an English phrase. Derived from Latin certainly, but it does not require understanding Latin (a language which I do not speak) to comprehend. > Name a single, unqualified societal benefit to a one year leave. You are demanding I argue against my argument as evidence for my own argument? That seems to me the height of intellectual dishonesty. A single unqualified social benefit is that people like me would be able to take many years off work, which I think would just be grand, because I'm rather lazy and other people paying for tathougies to play with babies sounds great! Is that a social benefit?
- perfmode 8y ago> Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving, characterized by an unbiased, honest attitude, which can be demonstrated in a number of different ways: > One's personal faith does not interfere with the pursuit of truth; > Relevant facts and information are not purposefully omitted even when such things may contradict one's hypothesis; > Facts are presented in an unbiased manner, and not twisted to give misleading impressions or to support one view over another; > References, or earlier work, are acknowledged where possible, and plagiarism is avoided.