(January 11, 2025 at 11:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:Well I don't want to leap to ad hominem, but yes the reasoning on display is poor, filled with unevidenced rhetoric and hyperbole, but maybe the poster is young. I know that I would not have recognised common logical fallacies, or understood their implication until I was in my 30's. Though of course I was horrified to realise how poor my reasoning was as a result, and have tried not to make such errors since, and more importantly to honestly admit to errors and correct them...(January 11, 2025 at 10:25 am)Sheldon Wrote: Which words are tripping you up?
The English ones. He evinced an ignorance of the meaning of "racist" over at AD, such that I had to link him to a couple of definitions. This boy's 'bout as sharp as a bowling ball.
Which by the way @Jamiesmithie is precisely the point I believe Silver was making, that one should have the integrity to accept when one is wrong, and to admit it.
