[HN Gopher] The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995) [pdf]
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The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995) [pdf]
Author : sherilm
Score : 28 points
Date : 2024-02-15 18:24 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| stelliosk wrote:
| Baloney detection kit is great. Taking it a step further,
| "Attacking faulty reasoning" by T.Edward Damer is a great book.
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacking_Faulty_Reasoning
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073726 - Sept 2019 (27
| comments)
| jonathankoren wrote:
| "Demon Haunted World" is such a great book. It was the first book
| that told me it was not just okay not to be believe, but _not_
| believing was in fact Good(tm).
| arduanika wrote:
| There was an interesting counterargument on an old blog. If you
| can look past the uncivil language in the title, the author makes
| some good observations about how "baloney detection" tends to
| show up in the wild:
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140219225908/http://plover.net...
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| A snippet: "In the real world, it's not sufficient simply to
| identify a fallacy in an argument. You've also got to think why
| the fallacy is a problem in that particular instance, and what
| consequences it could have for the rest of the argument; often it
| will have less consequence than you might think. If you think
| you've dismissed an opposing argument just because you think
| you've seen a fallacy, then you're deluding yourself."
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| I never found out who this "plover" author is, or why they took
| down their blog. Maybe someone here knows more.
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