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by JimC » Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:12 pm
I do so like to have a prophecy realised...
(I count smilies as snide remarks - doesn't everyone?)

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by rainbow » Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:19 am
Clear observational bias.
I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
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by Hermit » Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:33 am
rainbow wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:19 am
Clear observational bias.
Platonists don't observe. They ontologise. This, of course, makes it so easy for them to imagine themselves as prophets.

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by Brian Peacock » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:17 am
I knew you were going to say that.

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by Hermit » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:57 am
Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:17 am
I knew you were going to say that.
You are an empiricist, so you would have predicted what I was going to say by analysing patterns. Prophets don't do that. They make stuff up, which can involve random interpretations, such as "I count smilies as snide remarks", appeals to popularity like "doesn't everyone?" and they employ any other fallacies that come to hand at the time. They are full of themselves. Melbourne, by the way, is full of them.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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