{"id":760,"date":"2005-08-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=760"},"modified":"2005-08-06T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T09:00:00","slug":"on-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"On logic:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief review (inspired by something written by <a href=\"http:\/\/evil_genius.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">evil_genius<\/a>).  Logic, and the scientific method, do not include:<\/p>\n<p>* Argument from authority:  &#8220;The big honcho said so, so it&#8217;s true and &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n* Argument from emotion:  &#8220;mom, dad, apple pie, and my idea, so it&#8217;s true and &#8230; &#8221; OR &#8220;you get all upset when we talk about my ideas, therefore your ideas are crap, therefore mine are true &#8230;&#8221;.<br \/>\n* Argument by caricature:  &#8220;the straw man&#8221;:  &#8220;your idea can be sketched out like this, right?  So, my sketch has these flaws &#8230; so your idea must have those flaws as well &#8230; &#8221;<br \/>\n* Argument by changing the subject: &#8220;Hey!  Look!  Civil rights!  So anyway, what I said was true and &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n* Argument by false analogy:  &#8220;Okay, my idea is sort of like a blimp, right?  Blimps float because they&#8217;re lighter than air, by volume.  Therefore, my idea is lighter than air, by volume!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are fine rhetorical and argumentative techniques, but they don&#8217;t prove anything. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief review (inspired by something written by evil_genius). Logic, and the scientific method, do not include:<\/p>\n<p>* Argument from authority: &#8220;The big honcho said so, so it&#8217;s true and &#8230;&#8221; * Argument from emotion: &#8220;mom, dad, apple pie, and my idea, so it&#8217;s true and &#8230; &#8221; OR &#8220;you get all upset when we <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=760\">On logic:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}