Which logical fallacies are these?

[seycyrus]

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Simple. Your answer to your roomate's question regarding the stairs was entirely and irrevocably incorrect.

He went up the stairs because it was reinforced by the opportunity to use your toothbrush to clean the toilet.

 

[27Thousand]

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Simple. Your answer to your roomate's question regarding the stairs was entirely and irrevocably incorrect.

He went up the stairs because it was reinforced by the opportunity to use your toothbrush to clean the toilet.

seycyrus, naughty! naughty! Remember we've been told "not from a book"! Stairs is from a book! Toothbrush is from a book! You're only applying/regurgitating what you learned from "the book".

Is it just me, or does anyone else here see how ridiculous it is to say it's from a book? I don't understand why examples 1 and 3 are any more from a book?

Can anyone here please explain to everyone else how irrational this is?

 

[DaveC426913]

Is it just me, or does anyone else here see how ridiculous it is to say it's from a book? I don't understand why examples 1 and 3 are any more from a book?

Why are you putting so much meaning into what these roommates say about coming from a book? How do you even know they weren't just being silly?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

seycyrus, naughty! naughty! Remember we've been told "not from a book"! Stairs is from a book! Toothbrush is from a book! You're only applying/regurgitating what you learned from "the book".

Is it just me, or does anyone else here see how ridiculous it is to say it's from a book? I don't understand why examples 1 and 3 are any more from a book?

Can anyone here please explain to everyone else how irrational this is?

You really need to relax and lighten up. Not everything needs to be so serious. Not everyone wants to have serious scientific discussions about every little thing such as why someone went up the stairs. Maybe next time you could say something like "Well you see he has this rubber chicken..." I am often serious and I find that I actually can make people who know me laugh much more easily than most people since it is much more striking when I say something funny than it is when someone else does it because they just don't expect it.

Perhaps you think you are being more intelligent and mature by responding in the manner that you do but remember anyone can make 'em bored but it takes a genius to make 'em laugh.

Yes, I stole that and made it my own. Sue me.

Many people don't like conversation that goes over their head. I actually had a friend who used to mock and make fun of just about any serious conversation I tried with him. He confessed once that he did it because he felt intimidated by my intelligence (no idea what he was on about there). So perhaps your friend is trying to "discredit you as a human being" because he feels "discredited as a human being" by your constant intellectualizing of the simplest of things.

Not everyone is amused by intellectual conversation. I have a friend who is and I usually save such conversations for when I am talking to him. Otherwise you should just have fun and quit giving so much of a crap about what other people think of your thoughts. Long ago I decided that I would amuse myself above catering to others. I find it hilarious when a person makes a jocular comment and I respond to them seriously. They don't get it until I laugh at them for taking me seriously (and often not then either) but I definitely find it funny. And sometimes I make jokes that no one else gets because it has nothing to do with anything but a funny confluence of ideas in my own head, and then I still chuckle to myself because I find it humourous that I would make such a joke and watch no one else have any clue what I am talking about.

In the end all I have is this...

 

[physicsdude30]

Mostly if they came from a book. Then secondly, how I could then let them know it's not really from a book, and letting them know that in a socially appropriate way. I know that many may not agree with the ideas I said in the three examples, and they're not necessarily profound (many creative people keep on brainstorming until something good actually comes up). I just am looking for ideas on how to let people know an idea is something I thought actually thought up, rather than regurgitated, when that's the case. And yes, I know I can work on making things more entertaining, but I don't think not entertaining means that I'm not actually thinking of an idea myself.

I know that example number two may have been overbearing socially, and I probably shouldn't have brought that particular one out of the three up, but I don't think I was mindlessly speaking to them.

So in other words, yes if it is from a book, and how to have better interpersonal communication skills in letting someone know something is an idea I thought of, even if they may not necessarily agree with the idea. I just think something should stand on it's own merits, rather than someone discrediting you because they think you may not be the only person to think of the idea.

Hmmm, how to deal. Okay, it's from a book but here goes...

Example one/three, him: "Not from a book!"
You: "Why do you say that's from a book?"
Result: He'll realize it's not from a book

Example two: Him, "That's not creative! ... He was tired. Ho ho ho!"
You: "Well you see I would have just said he went up the stairs to see the view from the other side, but I already thought of that one and wanted to try something different."
Result: He'll act confused

If he says: "You can't go to the grocery store because that's in a book."
You: "Dude, I didn't know that. I guess I learn something new every day! Whoa!"

 

[DaveC426913]

Hmmm, how to deal. Okay, it's from a book but here goes...

Example one/three, him: "Not from a book!"
You: "Why do you say that's from a book?"
Result: He'll realize it's not from a book

Example two: Him, "That's not creative! ... He was tired. Ho ho ho!"
You: "Well you see I would have just said he went up the stairs to see the view from the other side, but I already thought of that one and wanted to try something different."
Result: He'll act confused

If he says: "You can't go to the grocery store because that's in a book."
You: "Dude, I didn't know that. I guess I learn something new every day! Whoa!"

I'm callin' sock puppet.

 

[27Thousand]

OK. On the off-chance your social situation has not changed and is still valid: ask your friend what he is hearing - what clues he is getting specifically - that make him think these ideas are coming from a book as opposed to your own head. How would he recognize that an idea you stated was not from a book?

That actually sounds like a good idea. You sound like you have good social skills.

So a question I have for you, was there anything in my examples that made others think they were from a book? I just want to know if I said anything confusing, or sent off the wrong signals, or bad wording of how I presented the situation?

Like the example of the hypothetical experiment of drilling holes in the head, with a control and experimental group (the hypothetical experiment I made up, I assume never was conducted, just my imagination). I've never heard of that historical situation from a book, and I've never heard of someone using that hypothetical experiment out of that information to demonstrate how there can be alternative explanations to the evidence in Science. When my roommate said the weakness of Science is the null hypothesis can be true, I don't understand how I was being more from a book, when the null hypothesis is in book after book and many keep saying it's a weakness? Personally I don't care if something is from a book, because I think it's irrelevant, but I don't know why others here say my answer was taken from a book?

I don't know why some here think I got the "I'm trying to conceptualize the world around me" phrase< to describe my feelings< from a book? I also don't know why it's anymore from a book than when my roommate quoted lines from the movie Princess Bride, which I guess technically the movie script is found in a book. Sounding like it's from a book doesn't mean it's from a book.

Applying operant conditioning in an unusual way may have applied concepts which originally came from a book. However, if I make it intuitive enough to the point I considered it conceptual. I don't know why for practical purposes (although it would still be technically) from a book? Isn't "he's tired" also a concept found in a book? Although my answer wasn't profound like the invention of cell phones, when they invented cell phones they used scientific principles and existing technologies that came from books. Does that mean the invention of cell phones was regurgitated from a book?

Thanks for any help

 

[DaveC426913]

That actually sounds like a good idea. You sound like you have good social skills.

So a question I have for you, was there anything in my examples that made others think they were from a book? I just want to know if I said anything confusing, or sent off the wrong signals, or bad wording of how I presented the situation?

Like the example of the hypothetical experiment of drilling holes in the head, with a control and experimental group (the hypothetical experiment I made up, I assume never was conducted, just my imagination). I've never heard of that historical situation from a book, and I've never heard of someone using that hypothetical experiment out of that information to demonstrate how there can be alternative explanations to the evidence in Science. When my roommate said the weakness of Science is the null hypothesis can be true, I don't understand how I was being more from a book, when the null hypothesis is in book after book and many keep saying it's a weakness? Personally I don't care if something is from a book, because I think it's irrelevant, but I don't know why others here say my answer was taken from a book?

I don't know why some here think I got the "I'm trying to conceptualize the world around me" phrase< to describe my feelings< from a book? I also don't know why it's anymore from a book than when my roommate quoted lines from the movie Princess Bride, which I guess technically the movie script is found in a book. Sounding like it's from a book doesn't mean it's from a book.

Applying operant conditioning in an unusual way may have applied concepts which originally came from a book. However, if I make it intuitive enough to the point I considered it conceptual. I don't know why for practical purposes (although it would still be technically) from a book? Isn't "he's tired" also a concept found in a book? Although my answer wasn't profound like the invention of cell phones, when they invented cell phones they used scientific principles and existing technologies that came from books. Does that mean the invention of cell phones was regurgitated from a book?

Thanks for any help

It's all about context. If the context of your conversation were not one of scientific/technical discussion then your comments would be anomalous - out of place.

It might very well have sounded like you were a robot, spewing forth info not directly relevant (Data in Star Trek does this often).


I'll give you an example from my life:

I was having a boisterous conversation with a bunch of friends about something or other to do with racism. During the course of the conversation, I said "Well, that would be the case of reverse-racism..."

A guy who, until then had had very little to say, burst out with "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM, THERE IS ONLY RACISM."

It was quite obvious that he was simply repeating what he'd read somewhere. The reason it was obvious was because he was ignoring the flow of the conversation; it didn't fit in, so it was jarring.

Your comments might sound like Data would say them.
"A joke? Ah! A jest. A japery. A gag. A caper. A lark..."
"Shut up Data."

 

[27Thousand]

It's all about context. If the context of your conversation were not one of scientific/technical discussion then your comments would be anomalous - out of place.

It might very well have sounded like you were a robot, spewing forth info not directly relevant (Data in Star Trek does this often).I'll give you an example from my life:

I was having a boisterous conversation with a bunch of friends about something or other to do with racism. During the course of the conversation, I said "Well, that would be the case of reverse-racism..."

A guy who, until then had had very little to say, burst out with "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM, THERE IS ONLY RACISM."

It was quite obvious that he was simply repeating what he'd read somewhere. The reason it was obvious was because he was ignoring the flow of the conversation; it didn't fit in, so it was jarring.

Your comments might sound like Data would say them.
"A joke? Ah! A jest. A japery. A gag. A caper. A lark..."
"Shut up Data."

Thanks. I guess I understand why maybe a roommate would think that. I'm just trying to figure out why people in this forum thought the answers were from books? I mean, I stated in the first and last examples, "I never saw this in a book" and told physicsforums how I came to my responses and how I didn't get my stepping stones from any book. Still, people in this forum kept on accusing me of regurgitating from a book. The example of operant conditioning you could say I used knowledge from a book that I made intuitive to me, and then applied it in an unusual way. However, the conceptualize the world around me and the hypothetical drilling in the heads experiment (which never was even conducted) don't have any details about them that I got from books. The context of my hypothetical experiment was the roommate asked me what the weakness of the Scientific Method is, which his answer was a book answer. Was there anything I said that made those from phyiscforums think I got my answers from books? I just don't understand why some thought that.

Thanks

 

[Ophiolite]

Thanks. I guess I understand why maybe a roommate may think that. I'm just trying to figure out why people in this forum thought the answers were from books?

Please point me to a post where anyone here thought your answers were from a book. What I said, and I think others did too, is that none of your thoughts are especially original. In fact, to be quite honest, they are pretty mundane, boring and unimaginative.

I mean, come on, 'conceptualising the world'! That's clumsy English. It might be a convenience for you to think of it that way, but actually sharing it with the rest of humanity shows you are overrating the quality of the thought. Sorry, am I devaluing you as a human being? No, I'm just pointing out that you came up with a pretty crap phrase there, whether it was original, or an adaptation of something out of a book. If you think creativity is about using Roget's Thesaurus, then you have a major shock in store. (And if you don't understand the relevance of that statement you have further shocks down the line.)

And you still don't get the point that most of the time, in everyday conversation, people do not want to hear a bunch of self indulgent thoughts spouted out publicly. Nor have you addressed the question as to why you are bothered about what these other people think. Are you going to answer that, or keep avoiding it?

That all may sound rather hostile, but when someone is so determined to be intransigently thick it is difficult not to be comewhat a trifle agitated. Redeem yourself now. Start making sense. you know you can do it.

(Please excuse the Aral in the first sentence of the last paragraph.)

 

[27Thousand]

Please point me to a post where anyone here thought your answers were from a book. What I said, and I think others did too, is that none of your thoughts are especially original. In fact, to be quite honest, they are pretty mundane, boring and unimaginative.

I mean, come on, 'conceptualising the world'! That's clumsy English. It might be a convenience for you to think of it that way, but actually sharing it with the rest of humanity shows you are overrating the quality of the thought. Sorry, am I devaluing you as a human being? No, I'm just pointing out that you came up with a pretty crap phrase there, whether it was original, or an adaptation of something out of a book. If you think creativity is about using Roget's Thesaurus, then you have a major shock in store. (And if you don't understand the relevance of that statement you have further shocks down the line.)

And you still don't get the point that most of the time, in everyday conversation, people do not want to hear a bunch of self indulgent thoughts spouted out publicly. Nor have you addressed the question as to why you are bothered about what these other people think. Are you going to answer that, or keep avoiding it?

That all may sound rather hostile, but when someone is so determined to be intransigently thick it is difficult not to be comewhat a trifle agitated. Redeem yourself now. Start making sense. you know you can do it.

(Please excuse the Aral in the first sentence of the last paragraph.)

The reason I thought of conceptualizing the world is because earlier I was talking with someone about how it's important not to have any route learning in life, but to think in concepts only. So that's what I was thinking at the time when I thought of that phrase, combining it with the Science show. I just thought it was weird that I can't think it because it may be from a book. The other day I said, "I'm going to bed." That's very unimaginative and unoriginal. I don't understand why all thoughts are supposed to be that way? My point is I wasn't quoting a book, even if the words are found in a dictionary. I just thought it was weird that roommates dismiss thoughts/feelings that way.

 

[DaveC426913]

I just thought it was weird that I can't think it because it may be from a book. The other day I said, "I'm going to bed." That's very unimaginative and unoriginal. I don't understand why all thoughts are supposed to be that way? My point is I wasn't quoting a book, even if the words are found in a dictionary. I just thought it was weird that roommates dismiss thoughts/feelings that way.

You want to think original thoughts? Stop treating your roommates' comments as commandments.

"I can't think it because it may be from a book."
"I don't understand why all thoughts are supposed to be that way?"

I don't see how you plan to have original thoughts if your habit is let your roommates tell you what you can think.

 

[27Thousand]

Please point me to a post where anyone here thought your answers were from a book.

Post 19, Jared in paragraph four says he thinks I got "I'm conceptualizing the world around me" from a book, although I said in post 1 that I didn't. He also says that changing word around is plagiarism. If I say "I'm dozing off" because I always hear people say "I'm tired" and want to change it, am I a bad plagiarizer? It may not sound creative, but it's not from a book and I don't understand how it's plagiarism if that's how I actually feel.

Post 50, bringing us to paragraph four again, Jared says, "There is nothing "not found in a book" about it." In my original post I mentioned that my hypothetical experiment wasn't from a book. Okay, so I'm curious if I stated my first post in a way to make people think that way? I'm just trying to feel the situation here, and my errors in communication.

 

[27Thousand]

You want to think original thoughts? Stop treating your roommates' comments as commandments.

"I can't think it because it may be from a book."
"I don't understand why all thoughts are supposed to be that way?"

I don't see how you plan to have original thoughts if your habit is let your roommates tell you what you can think.

Common sense tells me that something is fishy about "books". My intentions were just to get input on logical fallacies and communication improvements. Then it sounded like Jared thought all my thoughts were inside books.

 

[bp_psy]

Common sense tells me that something is fishy about "books".

Did you by any chance get that from a book?

 

[DaveC426913]

Common sense tells me that something is fishy about "books". My intentions were just to get input on logical fallacies and communication improvements. Then it sounded like Jared thought all my thoughts were inside books.

Non-sequitur. I do not see how your response is in any way related to what I posted.

 

[27Thousand]

You want to think original thoughts? Stop treating your roommates' comments as commandments.

"I can't think it because it may be from a book."
"I don't understand why all thoughts are supposed to be that way?"

I don't see how you plan to have original thoughts if your habit is let your roommates tell you what you can think.

Common sense tells me that something is fishy about "books". My intentions were just to get input on logical fallacies and communication improvements. Then it sounded like Jared thought all my thoughts were inside books.

Non-sequitur. I do not see how your response is in any way related to what I posted.

Sorry for any confusion, or if there is still some. What I was just trying to say is I agree with you in not letting what my roommates say about books alter my actual thoughts inside my head. Common sense tells me there is something wrong with omitting a thought if it sounds like it's from a book, or "something very fishy about saying I can't think it." Although that's what I already believe, I was looking to build intellectual arguments for why "from a book should not matter" (I like to find intellectual reasons for everything, even if intuition already says so).

The way I see it, Albert Einstein spent three weeks proving the Pythogorean Theorem to himself, which many think is unnecessary. However, it gave him a deeper understanding of the theorem, and how the world works. I'm trying to come up with good intellectual reasons why:

"I can't think it because it may be from a book."
"I don't understand why all thoughts are supposed to be that way?"

are messed up (besides the reason that common sense and intuition saying it'll screw up your thoughts).

Then next time I'll be prepared. If I can say something very rational, then it'll be helpful. Relying on their intuition alone may not work.

 

[27Thousand]

Did you by any chance get that from a book?

How'd you know lol

I'm just trying to rationalize all of this. Although it sounds rediculous, since some people say, "Not from a book", I am curious about intellectual persuasion.

 

[JaredJames]

Post 19, Jared in paragraph four says he thinks I got "I'm conceptualizing the world around me" from a book, although I said in post 1 that I didn't. He also says that changing word around is plagiarism. If I say "I'm dozing off" because I always hear people say "I'm tired" and want to change it, am I a bad plagiarizer? It may not sound creative, but it's not from a book and I don't understand how it's plagiarism if that's how I actually feel.

Post 50, bringing us to paragraph four again, Jared says, "There is nothing "not found in a book" about it." In my original post I mentioned that my hypothetical experiment wasn't from a book. Okay, so I'm curious if I stated my first post in a way to make people think that way? I'm just trying to feel the situation here, and my errors in communication.

You said yourself you got the original phrase from a film (you corrected me when I said book). I then said all you did was replace the word understand with the word conceptualize. Nothing creative there, unles of course, you agree with Ophiolite that using a thesaurus is creative. I said it was plagiarism as an extreme exmaple designed to have a dig at your repeated nonsense.
Your 'hypothetical experiment' doesn't exist, or at least not in the experimental sense. The research was conducted into what effect drilling the brain has and the results showed it did little more than cause brain damage (same thing with labotamies).

As far as I can gather, your roommates DID NOT say yo can't think anything, you assumed that with your ridiculous overthinking. And by missing the point so blatently they then procede to poke fun at you because of it.

 

[DaveC426913]

... some people say, "Not from a book"...

This has been bugging me all along, and I just can't let it go any longer.

Can you please expand on the above sentence fragment? It is quite ambiguous and open to interpretation.

You see, that sentence fragment could be a command ("Do not quote me from a book.")
or it could be a statement of opinion ("That was not from a book.")
And even this second one is ambiguous, since it could be serious or it could be sarcastic ("Haha, That's not from a book.. Nope!")

Depending on interpretation, the sentence fragment has three completely different meanings.


Please, since it seems central to your ruminations, define your interpretation of your roommate's words.

 

[0xDEADBEEF]

I'm callin' sock puppet.

I thought of that, but it's a very ineffective one. You should really get bait:reply ratios better than 1:5 this looks more like 1:1

Maybe to prove my point I'll do a physicist's disgruntled ex girlfriend and complain about all of you being bad in bed...

 

[27Thousand]

I said it was plagiarism as an extreme exmaple designed to have a dig at your repeated nonsense.

Wait, I'm confused, so did you say that earlier to confuse me for fun, or to really tell me that it was plagiarism?

Okay, so let's make sure we're on the same page. Do you think that camera phones are creative? Yes/No? Most think that they are. I could be wrong but if they didn't know anything about cell phones or cameras, it wouldn't have happened. I could be wrong but cameras were not an idea that the inventor thought of, cell phones weren't an idea that they invented. Most of the technology/scientific principles they used to make camera phones had already been invented by others. Most innovations/creativity comes when someone takes ideas that already exist and combine them in ways that are different, often seeing things in a new way to do so. Thomas Edison's invented the light bulb, however 22 people discovered it before him and he knew about many of them; he was just trying to come up with a better version after much trial and error. Isaac Newton described how he stood on the heads of genius in coming up with gravitation; Benjamin Franklin and what he had to say about electricity; Louis Pasteur and spontaneous generation; etc. You probably get the picture. I'm not saying that I'm these people; I just don't understand why others can't do the same?

Although me trying to conceptualize the world around me isn't a profound way of expressing myself, I don't understand how I was plagiarizing, but rather how I felt at the time. It was less from a movie and the meaning behind it was more from another person if anything. The way I thought of that phrase is I was having a conversation with someone who said when he studies he hates route learning and prefers to think with meaning. Since I already agreed with him, I took "Newton's Apple, understanding the world around you," (or however they said it on TV, I don't even remember) to "I'm just trying to conceptualize the world around me."

This is why I get the impression that people are telling me to not have any thoughts/feelings and just forget everything I've learned (which would be bad). However, if I try to mimic how others speak and talk in layman terms, I don't have this problem at all. I just don't understand how wording things like everyone else is more thinking for myself and original, especially if I'm saying the same thing?

 

[JaredJames]

27thousand the more you keep this going, the more you force this to continue, the worse it makes you look.

You have continuously been told by multiple members what is going on and why your responses are inapropriate. Hence why your friends respond as they do.

Now take this advice and accept it. No it isn't what you wanted to hear, you wanted us all to agree with you and the only one to agree with you has been from a profile I believe you created yourself.
Let the thread go. Listen to the advice in it which has been restated many times over and over, or continue in your own little world where you know you are correct .

LET IT GO. Everytime you get a response you argue some stupid point in it. You drag the thread out by arguing semantics, discussing irrelevant statements and remaking your statements.

LET IT GO!
(anyone who agrees with the above please repost those three little words and show it, perhaps that will allow him to grasp what has been said here)

 

[27Thousand]

Your 'hypothetical experiment' doesn't exist, or at least not in the experimental sense. The research was conducted into what effect drilling the brain has and the results showed it did little more than cause brain damage (same thing with labotamies).

So I'm confused. Let me clear up any misunderstandings. Do you think my response in example three was from a book?

My roommate's response was the null hypothesis can always be true is a weakness of the Scientific Method, and you see that in book after book. Are you saying that is less from a book then if I make up a hypothetical experiment on how things could go wrong, using a historical event I never saw in a book to inspire my hypothetical experiment?

Now what I do is I just go to Google, look up "obsolete scientific theories", and use those as examples of how the Scientific Method can go wrong. I have no trouble with using these examples, they're a lot more concrete and in right field, however they're a lot more from a book (since the writing at Google is found in a book). See how ridiculous I find this "not from a book" is?

 

[JaredJames]

ffs!

27thousand the more you keep this going, the more you force this to continue, the worse it makes you look.

You have continuously been told by multiple members what is going on and why your responses are inapropriate. Hence why your friends respond as they do.

Now take this advice and accept it. No it isn't what you wanted to hear, you wanted us all to agree with you and the only one to agree with you has been from a profile i believe you created yourself.
Let the thread go. Listen to the advice in it which has been restated many times over and over, or continue in your own little world where you know you are correct .

Let it go. Everytime you get a response you argue some stupid point in it. You drag the thread out by arguing semantics, discussing irrelevant statements and remaking your statements.

Let it go!
(anyone who agrees with the above please repost those three little words and show it, perhaps that will allow him to grasp what has been said here)

 

[Ophiolite]

This has been bugging me all along, and I just can't let it go any longer.

Can you please expand on the above sentence fragment? It is quite ambiguous and open to interpretation.

Yes. Yes. Yes.
It has been bugging me too. I think there could be even more meanings than you have proposed. The response has been taken out of context. I feel there is a whole subtext missing, where prior conversations led to that particular response. We need clarity of this 3³.10³.

Although me trying to conceptualize the world around me isn't a profound way of expressing myself, I don't understand how I was plagiarizing,

You acknowledge you took a phrase from elsewhere and changed a single word. That seems like mild plagiarism to me.

There is a saying:
When you copy from one person that is plagiarism.
When you copy from many people that is research.

To which I add
When you copy from no one, that is madness.

(And that addition was creative.)

 

[27Thousand]

This has been bugging me all along, and I just can't let it go any longer.

Can you please expand on the above sentence fragment? It is quite ambiguous and open to interpretation.

You see, that sentence fragment could be a command ("Do not quote me from a book.")
or it could be a statement of opinion ("That was not from a book.")
And even this second one is ambiguous, since it could be serious or it could be sarcastic ("Haha, That's not from a book.. Nope!")

Depending on interpretation, the sentence fragment has three completely different meanings.


Please, since it seems central to your ruminations, define your interpretation of your roommate's words.

How I interpret my roommate's words is they're saying not to use a book, or maybe that they think I'm regurgitating a book.

To me, it's obvious that situations one and three have nothing about them that I actually used from a book. Since there are millions of books out there every thought anyone has is mostly from a book just by chance, but doesn't mean you can't have thoughts.

My roommate's response in situation three was a response often said in common college research methods/statistics textbooks, which threw me off because I thought it was hypocritical, plus books shouldn't matter in the big picture of things. It also threw me off because I thought my response in situation three was too cheesy to even be found in a book.

In situation two I wasn't regurgitating a book, but rather using something from a book that makes sense to me and using it in an out of the ordinary way. Since you hear people all the time say "He's tired" and I even say that, I felt like he was saying I was just thinking "ordinary" when he said to be creative. Even if my response was geeky, since example works if you were to test the hypothesis, I don't understand how I was less trying to think differently about things.

 

[JaredJames]

This has already been explained to you 27thousand. You are overthinking their responses and giving them answers which they are not looking for.

The fact you said they laughed after saying "not from a book" shows they are messing with you. You're just too **** to see it.

You have already had responses from myself and others concerning what you have said. All previous comments from myself, dave etc are correct (except the one you made). They point out the flaws in your thinking and your responses.

Accept what you have been told. You wanted everyone to agree with you. They haven't. Deal with it.

 

[27Thousand]

You acknowledge you took a phrase from elsewhere and changed a single word. That seems like mild plagiarism to me.

There is a saying:
When you copy from one person that is plagiarism.
When you copy from many people that is research.

So then how was that not "research"? If someone told me that they hate route learning and prefer meaning, then I remember years earlier the phrase "Newton's Apple, Understanding the World around you," then as a way to express my feelings I say, "I'm just trying to conceptualize the world around me," how's that plagiarism? How is that not more taken from common people saying they hate route learning.

Please explain how that is plagiarism anymore than those who invented the camera phone? In the encyclopedia it even says, "The camera phone, like many complex systems, is the result of converging and enabling technologies. There are dozens of relevant patents dating back as far as the 1960s." Keep in mind they just combined existing ideas: phones and cameras to each other, which they didn't invent themselves. I guess that's plagiarism? When you look at the time line of the camera phone, every once in a while some person comes along and adds a technology to the camera phone, taken from another discipline. Do you think that's plagiarism?

 

[JaredJames]

Ooh look, to string it out you are once again arguing a pointless phrase from a previous post...

It is plagiarism because you quote the film, which had a writer (therefore quoting the writer) and simply changed a word. Copying from one source, hence, PLAGIARISM.

I suggest you learn what plagiarism is before debating it. Your cell phone crap has nothing to do with it. They sourced the technology, PAYING to use the technology (so as not to break a patent) and combined it. So, NOT PLAGIARISM. There was nothing copied about the technology (not in the plagiarism sense).

Look up the definition of plagiarism and you'll realize just how ridiculous your little cell phone speech is.

edit: in fact here it is -

"the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Note the word "unauthorised". So the cell phone using legal methods to obtain the technology is not plagiarism. If they broke into the patent office and stole the plans then yes, it would be. But they didn't

You, taking the phrase from a film writer without permission and changing a word, claiming you then 'created' the phrase IS plagiarism.

There is a difference. Look things up before arguing them.