Monday, March 10, 2014

Afternoon Epilepsy


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"These guys (Climate Scientists) are so incompetent, they have to cheat to prove a circular argument." — Soylent Green

Maybe so, but which of you lot are incompetently oozing fallacious arguments all the way to the bank?

One does not need to cheat in a circulus in probando argument to conclude with a premise.


Climate Change believers are rich because there is Climate Change.
Climate Change is extant because the Climate Change believers are rich.
Therefore, there is Climate Change.

Soylent Sage said...

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club!

Anonymous said...

Miraculously enough I get the reference - Fight Club!
Pop Culture is definitely not my strong suite. Exceptin' maybe some 60s and 70s crap on account of The Tutor's learnin' me that shite.
I loves me the word tautology. It means something different depending on whether you are discussing rhetoric, logic or grammar.

"Ill-informed opinions" - a tautology.
"Well-informed opinions" - an oxymoron.