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12/31/2011 Happy New Year everyone. Taking time off this weekend. We’re running parts of a speech John gave at the Steeling the Mind of America Conference in Denver, Colorado, […]
“No True Scotsman” Fallacy _ the arguer defines a term in a biased way in order to protect his position from rebuttals. Example: “You can believe what you want about […]
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12/24/2011 Merry Christmas Everyone. Free speech is essential to a free society, where people have the right to utter opinions others might find offensive. We’ll devote much of the […]
Naturalistic Fallacy _ the position that since something is a particular way, it is morally acceptable for it to be that way. Examples: “Might makes right. After all, it’s a […]
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12/17/2011 A key historic sign of distressed currencies headed toward collapse occurs when governments enact currency control laws to prevent their people from moving wealth out of that currency. In […]
Moralistic Fallacy _ the demand that because something should be a particular way, that it validates that way. Or, jumping from arguments about what ought to be to statements about […]
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12/10/2011 A potpourri show is on the table today, where jumping from topic to topic should be fun. Academic freedom is essential in education and science, especially when politically correct […]
Hasty Generalization _ making a general claim which is derived from an insufficient number of specific examples. Example: “Prisoner X was a member of an extremist group. Everyone in that […]
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12/03/2011 Much hoo-hah and debate about Senate Bill 1867 this week, both in congress and on the talk circuits. Ostensibly the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allows the military to […]
Genetic Fallacy _ the rejection of a claim simply because someone objects to the source of the information. Example from Dr Jason Lisle’s book Discerning Truth: If a Creationist cites […]