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Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.” When you first learn some formal logic and about fallacies, it’s hard to not use the shiny new hammer to go around playing ‘fallacy bingo’ (to mix metaphors): “aha! that is an ad hominem, my good sir, and a logically invalid objection.” The problem, of course, is that many fallacies are perfectly good as a matter of inductive logic: ad hominems are often highly relevant (eg if the person is being bribed). A rigorous insistence on formal syllogisms will at best waste a lot of time, and at worst becomes a tool for self-delusion by selective application of rigor. ....
Silicon Valley s safe space Cade Metz, New York Times Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, in New York, Jan. 7, 2017. The blog Slate Star Codex, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist, became the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists and a window into the psyche of many tech leaders. Then it disappeared. (Andrew White/The New York Times)Andrew White/NYT The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex. It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist who called himself Scott Alexander (a near anagram of Slate Star Codex). It was also the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists, a group that aimed to reexamine the world through cold and careful thought. ....
He was sure if caylee s death was not an accident and his daughter was indeed innocent? it s something for the defense to work with. give up what bayes promised during this opening statement. short of him getting a full mea culpa confession, i was involved in the accidental drowning of my grand daughter and i helped bury her body. they are grasping at straws. the statement that he made to supposedly made to his mistress is a hearsay statement. the judge didn t admit to it prove guilt or innocence. the jury hears this and you can t unring a bell. but does the letter reflect the grandfather who is overridden with grief at the loss of his granddaughter or reflect guilt on his parts. julie: here is what we want to know. what s going on now. the judge took an indefinite recess. he told the jurors, plan on sticking around until late ....
yes. hair, the smell of a dead person. i heard her mother say it smelled like there had been a dead body in the car. then they tried to say it was pizza or something like that. geraldo: some jurors remembered even slightest detail about where and in what condition kayley s body was found. the little girl was found in the woods or in wooded area near grandparents house. tape on her mouth. geraldo: to determine whether prospective jurors trying to down play their exposure to pre-trial publicity, they had their own hit list of troublesome tv shows. you wouldn t have seen any cable news shows such as geraldo rivera or things like that, would you have seen any of the attorneys either side. no. talking on television? did not see mr. bayes on nancy ....
President is adamant for those and i don t think you re going to have a no trade war actually i don t think it s right for if i don t think you re going to have a trade i just think that it may be trumps idea of a tough opening gambit the art of the deal but for now his tariff threats of worried allies and corporate leaders like. and we could talk to holocaust meeting now the chief economist baron but bank hold it appears the president is adamant about his proposed terrace for imported steel medium do you think though that he could be using this to leverage about enough to deal as he has suggested in the past. that is probably one of the many motives behind these tariffs the major motive is probably simply to kate his bayes the angry voters who think that america can get lost glory back by rebuilding a steel industry that would only be competitive on the heavy import protect. equity markets do seem to be recovering today from the initial shock of all that talk over ....