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by syops 6y ago
Speaking fees is how one legally bribes politicians. Such is how my cynical self sees it. The Clintons earned over $150 in speaking fees since leaving the presidency. Does anyone think their speeches are worth $10 million a year? At the
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Hence my clarification where I stated the point differently. Yes, valid would have been a better choice. Do you see that you have taken my phrase logically sound and then switched to sound arguments ? Do you think these mean the same t
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by syops 6y ago
I agree I should have used "valid" when I used "sound". I also clarified what I meant by "logically sound". I further stated that I was using my parlance when I used "logically sound". What is int
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Is there a difference in meaning between: sound argument logically sound I'm not aware of these phrases being the same. I took mathematical logic in graduate school many years ago and I've used logically sound to be somethi
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Obviously I'm speaking in the vernacular and as I stated I used the terms as they meant to me . Besides logically sound and sound argument aren't the same thing in my mind. One refers to soundness of logic and the other to s
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Well I did use logically sound and not sound argument . I personally don’t see a difference in logically sound and logically valid but I clarified things in my previous post.
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I guess it comes down meaning of “sound”. Let me be more specific. An argument can correctly use the rules of logic and have an incorrect conclusion. This can happen if some of the premises are false. For example: All men are immortal. S
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Yes, that is why I agree with appeal to false authority being a fallacy. This is what I was referring to in my last paragraph.
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An argument can be logically sound but with a false conclusion. An argument can be logically invalid but with a correct conclusion. The role of logical fallacies is to point out unsound reasoning. They don’t demonstrate veracity or lack t
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I was just asking for an example. Sweden is one. Now I know.
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What country is this?
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I have no idea and I suspect the answer is that most people don't actually commit several felonies per day. However, the point is that there are lots of laws that I'm not aware of and I may have inadvertently broken one of them.
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Rights aren't really useful or meaningful if exercising them causes problems. What we should strive for is someone refusing to have their car searched without any problems.
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I should state that I had in mind police interactions similar to traffic stops. Boldly proclaiming you don't consent to a search or you refuse to answer questions can lead to a tough time for you. I think in general one should strive
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The problem with never talk to the police is that they can mess with you more or less with impunity. They can beat you and not worry about retribution from the judicial system. They can arrest you in which the only charge is resisting a
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The land itself may not be valuable as such but the way the people are organized and function as a whole is. Moving the people to a new location wouldn’t necessarily duplicate value of that society.
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His joke is funny and the point is made. I find it funny that the joke about peoples' intelligence may contain a mistake. Hence my comment.
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This is funny because a bell curve is a continuous function and the set of people is discrete. The bell curve is a model of the population at large but I have my doubts that it's a perfect model and that it perfectly matches up with r
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Have you ever used "average" when you meant median? Carlin is speaking in the vernacular. I've never heard anyone use "average" when they meant median.
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Do you believe intelligence is truly a normal distribution? It's commonly modeled as such but is it actually truly a normal distribution? A normal distribution is a continuous function and the set of people is discrete. It's a
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Yes, he's making a joke. It's funny and a pithy remark. The point is made. I find it an interesting point because when mocking other peoples' intelligence one ought to make certain they are correct. Sort of how when one c
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I don't know all the particulars of IQ distribution but I do know that it's controversial to say that it accurately measures intelligence. Carlin was talking in vernacular and so I think it's safe to assume he was not necessa
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The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of stat
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I am definitely not saying that poor whites are the ones pushing the notion of race over class. I’m saying they’ve been taught by media to view things in terms of race rather than class. Race has been used by the ruling class to stifle ec
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Yes, upper class are obsessed with race and are enacting superficial policies that do little to help people who really need it. They are content to do things that make it appear to be addressing a problem but not doing things that would ac
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I contend that the real tragedy of American politics is that what ought to be class/labor issues gets sidetracked into race issues. If poor whites would stop thinking in terms of race and instead think in terms of class and economic j
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From my perspective the proper response to OP is to either 1. point out how the claims made about Parler are false. 2. point out that this is done by other large social media websites and thus Parler should not be singled out. Keep in mind
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You haven't given any evidence that Instagram enforces only one viewpoint. And I'd be shocked if Instagram only pays for political posts from one side of the debate in American politics. That Instagram seeks to counter what it p
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I don't claim anything about the veracity of the post you responded to or about your claims either. Except that your claims aren't an apt comparison because your comparison is logically flawed. Instagram paying some users for th
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You've made an argument that Instagram engages in some form of advancing certain viewpoints. You have not demonstrated that this is extensive and that Instagram enforces ideological conformity or that Instagram actively pays people to

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