@dilmandila @evan there's no evidence either way. Its almost exactly the same as the ontological argument for the existence of God.
#logic #fallacy
@dilmandila @evan there's no evidence either way. Its almost exactly the same as the ontological argument for the existence of God.
#logic #fallacy
@LisaKalayji When you write "capitalism", you mislead your readers and yourself, because we live in a system of economic interventionism, i.e. in a system of state intervention in the economy. Such a system is not pure capitalism, it has other properties, and it should not be called "capitalism".
#capitalism #statism #fallacy #propaganda
#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1042 - Jun 28 2025
What's the Word: #Eco; News Items: #Vaccinating the World, How #Children vs #AI Acquire #Language, #Vera_Rubin_Observatory, Visible #Nova, Effects of Chat #GPT on the #Brain; Who's That #Noisy; Name That Logical #Fallacy; #Science or Fiction
Webseite der Episode: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu
Mediendatei: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/skepticsguide/skepticast2025-06-28.mp3
@ByrdNick Fight one #fallacy with another. No economic statement can be proven by historical data. Only logic can do that. #Inequality is inevitable in a market economy, and wages, including the minimum wage, are determined by the marginal utility of the labor in question. Read more in Mises and Rothbard.
https://mises.org/library/book/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market
@greenpeace Why "make polluters pay"? Why not "make eaters pay", "make travelers pay", etc.? If ordinary people decide consume less goods, than the "polluters" will produce less oil.
#fallacy
Hi @j12t @tchambers @benpate,
isn't #discovery without #webfinger (hostnames and dns in essence) a #fallacy and thus #centralisation in disguise?
I mean DNS is the centralised infra we prbly can't do without anyway - why not stand on that shoulder and not add another global registry?
Moving may be done via redirects (like IRL).
Why can economic #inequality depress the #minimumWage?
An is-ought #fallacy?
From over 135,000 people in #protests, experiments, and #processTracing studies, scientists found that people seemed to infer what people OUGHT to earn from what they DO earn.
"Humans are not perfect creatures and tend to distort the facts either intentionally or unintentionally. There are always the brightest minds who offer justice, but they are exception. So always be reserved of what others tell. It might be more fiction than fiction."
☆ Maria Karvouni Truth
The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
The Grey Scale of Politics
We so much like to frame issues as black and white---even when we see shades of grey.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=400
If we cannot move past our "either-or" thinking, we will be missing the solutions we need to be finding.
#statstab #305 The Fallacy of Employing Standardized Regression Coefficients and Correlations ad Measures of Effect
Thoughts: Everyone loves effect sizes, but mind how you compute and interpret them.
I just participated in the first W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop¹ hosted by the Credible Web Community Group² (of which I’m a longtime member) and up front I noted that our very discussion itself needed to be careful about its own credibility, extra critical of any technologies discussed or assertions made, and initially identified two flaws to avoid on a meta level, having seen them occur many times in technical or standards discussions:
1. Politician’s Syllogism — "Something must be done about this problem. Here is something, let's do it!"
2. Solutions Looking For Problems — "I am interested in how tech X can solve problem Y"
After some back and forth and arguments in the Zoom chat, I observed participants questioning speakers of arguments rather than the arguments themselves, so I had to identify a third fallacy to avoid:
3. Ad Hominem — while obvious examples are name-calling (which is usually against codes of conduct), less obvious examples (witnessed in the meeting) include questioning a speaker’s education (or lack thereof) like what they have or have not read, or would benefit from reading.
I am blogging these here both as a reminder (should you choose to participate in such discussions), and as a resource to cite in future discussions.
We need to all develop expertise in recognizing these logical and methodological flaws & fallacies, and call them out when we see them, especially when used against others.
We need to promptly prune these flawed methods of discussion, so we can focus on actual productive, relevant, and yes, credible discussions.
#W3C #credweb #credibleWeb #authenticWeb #flaw #fallacy #fallacies #logicalFallacy #logicalFallacies
Glossary
Ad Hominem
attacking an attribute of the person making an argument rather than the argument itself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Politician's syllogism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
Solutions Looking For Problems (related: #solutionism, #solutioneering)
Promoting a technology that either has not identified a real problem for it to solve, or actively pitching a specific technology to any problem that seems related. Wikipedia has no page on this but has two related pages:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_fix
Wikipedia does have an essay on this specific to Wikipedia:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Solutions_looking_for_a_problem
Stack Exchange has a thread on "solution in search of a problem":
* https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/250320/a-word-that-means-a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem
Forbes has an illustrative anecdote:
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanieburns/2019/05/28/solution-looking-for-a-problem/
References
¹ https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/authentic-web-workshop/
² https://credweb.org/ and https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/
Previously in 2019 I participated in #MisinfoCon:
* https://tantek.com/2019/296/t1/london-misinfocon-discuss-spectrum-recency
* https://tantek.com/2019/296/t2/misinfocon-roundtable-spectrums-misinformation
#statstab #295 The Fallacy of the Null-Hypothesis Significance Test
Thoughts: "the [..] aim of a scientific experiment is not to precipitate decisions, but to make an appropriate adjustment in the degree to which one accepts, or believes, the hypothesis"
#NHST #Bayes #ConfidenceIntervals #pvalues #significance #testing #hypotheses #likelihood #critique #fallacy
The Grey Scale of Politics
Why we need to move away from either/or thinking:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=400
"Common sense" is what you invoke when you cannot support your beliefs with either "real arguments" or "real data."
Common sense is the noise that comes out of you when all you've got is the vague sense that you must be right--somehow?--but even *you* don't know why you think that.
Common sense is a slogan for shutting down arguments without having to know or prove anything.
« False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. »
― Socrates
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769241233671487488/false-words-are-not-only-evil-in-themselves-but
#STARTREK #LogicalThinking #72 - STAR TREK Logical Thinking #72 - Genetic #Fallacy (Fallacy of Origins)
#ChayaRaichik and #JoelBerry are flaming heaps of human garbage who insist that #tolerance means tolerating their intolerance.
This is a #fallacy that ultimately means bigoted, destructive pieces of shit must be accepted and tolerated so they can spread their #hate free from #moderation. I hope the worst life has to offer lands on their doorstep every day they continue to plague this planet with their existence. Tolerate that.
#LibsOfTikTok #HateMongers #bigotry
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/libsoftiktok-banned-from-bluesky-after-just-9-days-on-the-site/
A marvellous video from the team @deutschewellerss which talks about the primary energy fallacy, and how replacing combustion with renewables results in a huge reduction in total energy requirements.
Every thermodynamics lecturer should include this in their lectures, especially giving students the challenge of thinking about what noun never gets mentioned in the entire discussion. #energy #transition #fallacy #climatechange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJkq4iu7bk