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Which is not the same thing at all, so it proves nothing.
by eznzt 6y ago
Which is not the same thing at all, so it proves nothing.
- sam_goody 6y ago> so it proves nothing. Which, unfortunately, does not matter. You don't win arguments with proof, you win with persuasion. Proofs are but one tool that can be used to persuade the other party, but if the proofs are not clear and quick, usually the other side will feel they are right - "they have won the argument" On the other hand, a quote like this may well be persuasive to many, and they will feel you are right - "you have won". This is not "the ends justify the means" - this is understanding how people argue. There are those that argue on a purely intellectual level; Richard Feynman describes such a conversation with Einstein Oppenheimer and Bohr. But that was noteworthy enough for him to recall it twenty years later!
- psychoslave 6y agoHmm, didn’t Feynman have eidetic memory anyway?
- waterhouse 6y agoI don't think so—I've read several of his books and it was never mentioned; neither his Wiki page nor the first several results for googling "feynman eidetic memory" support the claim. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_possess_an_eidetic_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_poss... , on which he is not.
- psychoslave 6y agoThank you. Obviously, I’m not on this Wikipedia list. :D