Monday, May 15, 2017
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How to spell
Spelling bee words
I.Concerning the cover up
trickery
evasive
nonsensical
dismissive
amiss
delaying tactic
brazenly
offensively
procrastinating
false, misleading, incomplete information
obfuscate
information looked credible
slow response
nonsense
knowingly squandered…lives, tax dollars, and the resources
of victims
broad conspiracy
reveals new details
maneuvers by the automaker to hide its misdeeds
the cover up that the company orchestrated
II concerning the ETCS
complicated
impenetrable complexity
unexpectedness
incomprehensible
inscrutable
Unfathomable
Intricate
Interconnected
Overwhelming
Baroque
Inexplicable glitches
Phenomenal power
Poltergeist
Metaphysics
“Dark code” cf. dark matter, black ops
Multidisciplinary mess
unanticipated phenomena
Demiurges
Mitochondria
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Toyota testimony analysis: a helpful framework
Intentional Fallacy
Sometimes a speaker or writer uses a fallacy intentionally. In any context, including academic debate, a conversation among friends, political discourse, advertising, or for comedic purposes, the arguer may use fallacious reasoning to try to persuade the listener or reader, by means other than offering relevant evidence, that the conclusion is true.
Examples of this include the speaker or writer:[15]
- Diverting the argument to unrelated issues with a red herring (Ignoratio elenchi)
- Insulting someone's character (argumentum ad hominem)
- Assume the conclusion of an argument, a kind of circular reasoning, also called "begging the question" (petitio principi)
- Making jumps in logic (non-sequitur)
- Identifying a false cause and effect (post hoc ergo propter hoc)
- Asserting that everyone agrees (bandwagoning)
- Creating a "false dilemma" ("either-or fallacy") in which the situation is oversimplified
- Selectively using facts (card-stacking)
- Making false or misleading comparisons (false equivalence and false analogy)
- Generalizing quickly and sloppily (hasty generalization]
- http://www.fallacydetective.com/products/
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