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- From: jsanders@phys.ksu.edu (Justin M. Sanders)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Talk.Origins Fallacies (was: Re: Flake theories, a litmus test?)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:12:13 GMT
- Organization: Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, USA
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- References: <1993Jan22.103554.1@si151a.llnl.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan22.103554.1@si151a.llnl.gov> brinkman@si151a.llnl.gov writes:
- > I would suggest that all "pseudoscience" (on talk.origins) at any rate
- >can be discerned based on the inclusion of one or more of the following
- >fallacies.
- >
- [nifty list of fallacies deleted]
-
- I would add:
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- Argumentum ad Hominem Stramineum (from stramineus-- adj. "made of straw")
- The strawman argument. "The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says everything
- tends to become disorderly."
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- Justin M. Sanders "the great tragedy of Science-- the slaying
- Dept. of Physics of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Kansas State Univ. -- T.H. Huxley
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