Name a peaceful religion? I'll wait.

♪ "religion and violence", goes together like prayer and killing ♪

What is your favorite `non causa pro causa` fallacy?

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #Fallacies: "As a philosophy professor, this is how I explain the fallacy to my students: If the argument is not going your opponent's way, a common strategy — though a fallacious and dishonorable one — is to divert attention from the real issue by raising an issue that is only tangentially related to the first.

If our collective philosophical literacy were better, we might notice that this fallacy seems to be working spectacularly well for the fossil-fuel industry, the petrochemical industry, and a bunch of other bad actors who would like to throw us off the trail that would lead us fully to grasp their transgressions. We shouldn't keep falling for it.

But we do. Time after time, the real issue stands before us, and we find ourselves baying after some side issue of far less importance. I quiz my students: Explain, give examples."

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/

Logical Fallacies: Examples and Pitfalls in Research and Media

"In public discourse, research and academic writing, logical fallacies should always be avoided because they invalidate conclusions and arguments. Unfortunately, it is easy to commit such logical fallacies ourselves."

https://research.com/research/logical-fallacies-examples

@edutooters @academicchatter @communicationscholars @stopTDV #VideoGames #GameDev #GameDesign #IndieGame #CriticalThinking #Tech #Programming #EdTech #Gaming #Media #Education #Nonprofit #Knowledge #ScientificThinking #HighSchool #MiddleSchool #LogicalFallacies #Fallacies

It seems to me that many people have lost the ability to #debate issues without succumbing to basic name-calling and other #fallacies.
If you're going to actively disagree with what someone's said, please quote what they said and what you disagree with and why. Don't just label them and walk away, use your ability to rationally disagree with them to show why they're wrong.
It will help you grow intellectually and also have more of a lasting impact if you're right.
#freeThinking

A freely accessible book as instructive as "The art of being right" by Arthur Schopenhauer and as delightful as "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame:
Almossawi, Ali: An illustrated book of bad arguments. New York, NY : The Experiment, 2014 - https://bookofbadarguments.com/.

#arguments #discourse #fallacies #LogicalReasoning #SciCom

Also available in German (and many other languages): https://bookofbadarguments.com/de/.

#Argumente #Diskurs #Fehlschlüsse #LogischesDenken #WissKomm

@bookstodon #bookstodon

I think I need a randomized controlled trial to know for sure that cars are dangerous and can cause injury when they hit people.

I can't just believe a large heavy object moving at high speed can kill people. I need PROOF. I can't take precautions until I have RCT results with tens of thousands of participants.

If a new vehicle is developed that appears to be more dangerous to pedestrians, I will wait until enough people have been hit & killed before protecting myself.

This robot confabulates like a human

As a philosopher, I am often asked about the nature of truth. What is truth? How do we know what is true? These are questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries, and they continue to be the subject of intense debate and discussion.

Eric Schwitzgebel has gotten GPT-3 to write blog posts in his style, so I asked OpenA

https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2022/12/03/this-robot-confabulates-like-a-human/