[90283] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mission:Critical and Informal Fallacies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Mon Nov 17 22:34:22 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:08:50 -0800
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v0400277bb0967c576ccc@[139.167.130.248]>; from Robert Hettinga on Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 06:49:45PM -0500
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 06:49:45PM -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
[...]
> In the meantime, I wanted to find a quick and dirty list of informal
> logical fallacies, and, while I was at it, I bumped into Mission:Critical,
> which is fairly comprenensive website on logic an critical thinking.
> Evidently you can earn college credit on it, for those of you who need
> college credit. :-). Here it is.
>
> http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/
>
> Also, I've found a reasonable list of informal fallacies, from
> <http://ddi.digital.net/~setzerl/LOGIC.htm>, (which see for applicable
> attributions) which I've appended here. That way, you can all keep score at
> home. Expect me to use a bunch, whether I want to or not... :-). Notice
> that argumentum ad hominem is when you discount someone's opinion because
> of who they are or what they do. Vuperative insults, it seems, are another
> thing altogether. :-).
Another very good source on critical thinking is the alt.athiesm faq.
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