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Sunday, April 6, 2025

Why Fallacies are False -- 22, where they fit together

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Now I’m going to go back to some old information and give you a diagnostic. When you talk about people you know, that’s gossip. The standa...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Why Fallacies Are False -- 21, oral "grammar"

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So I’m talking about Axel Olrik’s Principles for Oral Narrative Research because it describes the structure for information that transmits w...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Why Fallacies are False -- 20, the subculture divide

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It's not enough to talk about MAGA in terms of people who can't tell when they're dealing with misleading authority. Now a bunch...
Friday, March 21, 2025

21st Century Classical Greek -- some days you eat the bear

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It's amazing what you find on the internet, especially Internet Archive, and how a little digging can reinforce a hypothesis that may se...
Monday, March 17, 2025

DIY -- GREAT eggless recipes

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WE NEED OUR COMFORT FOOD, even though eggs are almost worth their weight in gold (even at $3,000 per troy ounce).  I've been posting the...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Why Fallacies are False -- 19, Appeal to Misleading Authority

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We have had a bellyfull of appeals to misleading authority over the last ten years. This post starts a "story arc" that will lead ...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Why Fallacies are False -- 18, the search for causes

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I ran a little test on social media and got exactly what I expected. So here it is. I told a true story about a large estate that got split ...