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- From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Subject: Re: Talk.Origins Fallacies (was: Re: Flake theories, a litmus test?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.170620@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <1993Jan22.103554.1@si151a.llnl.gov> <1jpketINNc3f@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:06:20 GMT
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- In article <1jpketINNc3f@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, jsanders@phys.ksu.edu (Justin M.
- Sanders) writes:
- >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:
- >
- >Argumentum ad Hominem Stramineum (from stramineus-- adj. "made of straw")
- > The strawman argument. "The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says everything
- >tends to become disorderly."
-
- Wouldn't that be more like: "Evolution says that languages should get more
- complicated, but they don't so evolution is wrong."
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