Recent content by Anticitizen

I would hope because it allows for the opportunity to educate the uninformed. Otherwise people will only be allowed to ask questions to which to which the answers they already know :p

Not that strange, really. Read up on the traits of those three rare types and you'd pretty much expect PhysicsForums to represent them. /INTP

Thanks :)

Like how a disc made of vinyl is what a record is, but music or a song is what it does. Or various chemicals or physical structures is what pigments are, but color is what they do... Is there a specific word that exists to describe such 'intangibles' that are irrefutably 'real'? If not...

The flaw in the 'lack of the real argument' *should* be the basis of the fallacy, then it wouldn't be assailable. I take issue with the fact that it's even *called* a 'slippery slope argument', because it gives someone ammunition to use against someone who's actually employing a legitimate...

I think we're probably on the same wavelength, for the most part, but I must ask for clarification on your last sentence.

'The only substitute for manners is fast reflexes.'

I'm of the opinion that the 'slippery slope' fallacy isn't a fallacy at all. It's a valid argument that some incremental changes lead to unintended consequences, because these changes allow for other changes not considered in an original argument. You can't nullify such a 'slippery slope'...

This is a situation that could be very easily verified or nullified by experiment. Equipment: A handful of batteries of various manufacture, an accurate scale on which to weigh them, and a flashlight or something with which to deplete aforementioned batteries. Measure, deplete, measure. Get...

Actually, I don't believe in 'free will' at all in the sense that most people mean when they use the term. I don't believe in a mind-body duality, that there's a component of the mind independent of physicality; other than a notion that a mind is what the brain 'does', not what the brain 'is'...

Even if a truly random element exists in the makeup of the human brain, it doesn't guarantee 'free will'. It just means you wouldn't be able to predict what happens next. Let's say the universe was completely deterministic and that you knew the motion and location of every particle and force...

Lift your hand up, and move it around two dimensions... then three. Now move it through a fourth dimension. You see the problem...

In my opinion, it is objective fact that it is her opinion that her opinions are objective fact :)

In these sorts of arguments, I often sense a flaw in definitions. In this case, I see 'consciousness' bandied about as a noun, a thing in its own right; in my estimation, consciousness is more of a process of what the brain does, not something that is. This both respects and eliminates the...

Being 'self-contradictory' is a different argument than the one you presented, which was: "She stated what she considered obvious, in a very shallow and unreflective way, then called her beliefs: self-evident to any rational person; and then labelled anyone who questioned or disagreed with...