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Hawks
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 Posted - 11/26/2007 : 21:26:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
With respect to your 93% statistical analysis of my posts; if I was a critical thinker, I would ask you for corroboration of that statistic. |
Most people, critical thinkers or not would realize that I pulled that statistic out of my arse and merely used it to illustrate that the main thrust of your "whatever-it-was" was an argument from authority.
However, I am merely a fumbling old fool attempting to compete with folks that are less than half my age and twice my acumen! Please have compassion for the aged! It is truly pathetic to see an old man attempting to swim in deep and dangerous waters!
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Alledgedly, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I am always willing to be shown wrong. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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bngbuck
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 21:44:29 [Permalink]
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From Hawk.....bngbuck, interesting how roughly 93% of your post deals with setting up an argument from authority. What's wrong with actually just presenting the arguments instead? You could have done something like the following:
The main points and problems with Davis' article is nicely summed up in two sentences that can be found on the first page: |
From Cune:| Not all reviews were so glowing! |
Cune, interesting how roughly 83% of your post deals with setting up an argument from authority. What's wrong with actually just presenting the arg.....oh, hell, what's the use? |
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Hawks
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 05:03:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
From Hawk.....bngbuck, interesting how roughly 93% of your post deals with setting up an argument from authority. What's wrong with actually just presenting the arguments instead? You could have done something like the following:
The main points and problems with Davis' article is nicely summed up in two sentences that can be found on the first page: |
From Cune:| Not all reviews were so glowing! |
Cune, interesting how roughly 83% of your post deals with setting up an argument from authority. What's wrong with actually just presenting the arg.....oh, hell, what's the use?
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Cune's comment was not an argument from authority. |
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skeptic griggsy
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 12:48:44 [Permalink]
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Chippewa,, that is the way of irrationalists-mere obfuscation. Davies and Tipler shields of faith makes them such.
Stephen Hawkings knows that irrationality has no place in taling about cosmology! |
Fr. Griggs rests in his Socratic ignorance and humble naturalism. Logic is the bane of theists.Religion is mythinformation. Reason saves, not a dead Galilean fanatic. |
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Chippewa
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 16:45:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by skeptic griggsy
Chippewa,, that is the way of irrationalists-mere obfuscation. Davies and Tipler shields of faith makes them such. Stephen Hawkings knows that irrationality has no place in taling (talking?) about cosmology!
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I agree that Stephen Hawking is a lucid and rational thinker. |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 19:56:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
From Cune:| Not all reviews were so glowing! |
Cune, interesting how roughly 83% of your post deals with setting up an argument from authority. What's wrong with actually just presenting the arg.....oh, hell, what's the use? |
I missed this earlier, and I know bngbuck is ill, and I wish him a speedy recovery. But, whiskey-tango-foxtrot? How could you possibly arrive at 83%? And, as Hawks rightly noted, my argument was hardly an argument from authority. You stated that you understood that the book in question "has had good reviews." My point was simply that the review from one of the country's major newspapers (well known for its reviews) wasn't so glowing.
I understand that whether or not the book was reviewed positively was only a minor point, and so I wasn't trying to steer the argument one way or the other with my post. I just tried to nuance a minor point. |
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Hawks
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 21:41:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
How could you possibly arrive at 83%? And, as Hawks rightly noted, my argument was hardly an argument from authority. |
He tried to do what I did in the opening post in order to make some kind of point. Kind of back-fired, though. |
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