And listening to all the rationales and the lack of intellectual vibrancy and curiousity... shows me a field
of arguers, not discoverers.
I just had to comment since I was one
of the arguers for aesthetic backgrounds for fashion photographs — the green garage door is spot on!
I presume you are not taking the position that authority should be granted to an argument purely on the basis of the past history
of the arguer?
Not exact matches
The strongest
arguers claim to be the greatest people
of sanity, logic, and reason.
I'm more closer to believing a boy going to heaven that is sure
of himself than a bunch
of dimwit
arguers that gain nothing in their attempt to override beliefs, there is no purpose logically believing in nothing, you are nothing.
The one thing all the «smart people» will agree on is, when you try to denigrate the
arguers instead
of debating the arguments you are no longer debating science.
It was here that professional
arguers like Kent Hovind went to learn the art
of persuasion and how to win debates, which many thought he did.
IOW, the same questions, the same subjects, even the same idiocies, are repeated (in my case) EVERY YEAR — year in, year out, because every year brings a new crop
of listeners,
arguers, debaters, learners — and skeptics.
The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use
of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the
arguers of alternative points
of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.
Now it's certain that the «circularity»
arguers will see the error
of their ways and they will grant Pratt all the can openers he needs, and you and willy can put your giant brains to work on extinguishing the nuts and bolts criticisms
of John S. Greg G, et al..
The «if only you were educated then you would agree with me» theme is and has been repeated countless times, and it NEVER works: it's inconceivable to the
arguer that the erstwhile subject in need
of said education knows the subject and has reached a different conclusion.
What is meant by the term here is the combination
of argument from authority and argument ad populam, in which the
arguer does not give the argument and evidence that has convinced the scientific community, but instead uses an an argument the claim simply that all scientists say so.
According to Professor Murray Straus... mothers pose greater risk to children than fathers [liznote: This claim by the fathers» rights
arguers is nothing short
of deliberately fraudulent, given these men's scientific academic background.]