3 ms·

So you are saying there are those who split people into two groups and those two do not, and the first group is inherently bad at writing articles?

philosopher1234 3y ago
This is the flaw in having an entirely hateful view of splitting, that view is itself an example of splitting. You have to instead believe that there is a time where it is appropriate and useful to split (e.g, war) and times where it isn’t (general thinking)
- xyzelement 3y ago
  There's so just room for some sort of splitting to represent truth. The article talks about packers and mappers and that either is it isn't a useful distinction. I am open to either, but I wouldn't dismiss the idea because it's "splitting" by nature.
- boo-ga-ga 3y ago
  I get that splitting can be useful and logical in many particular situations. But when we talk about very general case like being a good engineer, it is definitely not a good way to reason.
- travoltaj 3y ago
  So you're saying that the splitters are split into two groups? One group which knows when it's a good time to split, and the other group which doesn't?,
- Gimpei 3y ago
  This feels like a false equivalence. Splitting articles try to make broad generalizations about human behavior, but, as any social scientist knows, human behavior is extremely complicated and multidimensional. A critique of these articles is about falsity, which is binary.
richbell 3y ago
"Someone wise once wrote 'Our world's divided into two types of folk. Now, theres the type of people who divide the world into different types of people, and then there's the type who don't.'" https://youtube.com/watch?v=ntIkCITF188&t=1m6s https://youtube.com/watch?v=ntIkCITF188&t=1m6s
davidzweig 3y ago
Presumably authors of articles holding such a view/opinion as to split people into two groups do not hold such a view/opinion as an inherent characteristic of their being.
marcosdumay 3y ago
The problem is on assuming the groups are static. The first group has been bad at writing articles up to now. That just doesn't tell you anything about what their next article will look up.
000ooo000 3y ago
This isn't what GP said, but nice try at a 'gotcha'.

philosopher1234 3y ago

This is the flaw in having an entirely hateful view of splitting, that view is itself an example of splitting. You have to instead believe that there is a time where it is appropriate and useful to split (e.g, war) and times where it isn’t (general thinking)

xyzelement 3y ago
There's so just room for some sort of splitting to represent truth. The article talks about packers and mappers and that either is it isn't a useful distinction. I am open to either, but I wouldn't dismiss the idea because it's "splitting" by nature.
boo-ga-ga 3y ago
I get that splitting can be useful and logical in many particular situations. But when we talk about very general case like being a good engineer, it is definitely not a good way to reason.
travoltaj 3y ago
So you're saying that the splitters are split into two groups? One group which knows when it's a good time to split, and the other group which doesn't?,
Gimpei 3y ago
This feels like a false equivalence. Splitting articles try to make broad generalizations about human behavior, but, as any social scientist knows, human behavior is extremely complicated and multidimensional. A critique of these articles is about falsity, which is binary.

richbell 3y ago

"Someone wise once wrote 'Our world's divided into two types of folk. Now, theres the type of people who divide the world into different types of people, and then there's the type who don't.'" https://youtube.com/watch?v=ntIkCITF188&t=1m6s https://youtube.com/watch?v=ntIkCITF188&t=1m6s

davidzweig 3y ago

Presumably authors of articles holding such a view/opinion as to split people into two groups do not hold such a view/opinion as an inherent characteristic of their being.

marcosdumay 3y ago

The problem is on assuming the groups are static. The first group has been bad at writing articles up to now. That just doesn't tell you anything about what their next article will look up.

000ooo000 3y ago

This isn't what GP said, but nice try at a 'gotcha'.