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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 09-12-2007, 01:54 PM
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Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

Mind saying what school you are at?
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-25-2007, 03:11 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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First of all, Jaynes (not Jensen) is the creator of the maximum entropy principle which, together with the indifference principle, form two of the fundamental ideas in his version of...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-25-2007, 03:04 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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I have been rude in my many posts regarding this challenge, but everything I have written has proved essentially correct. But DS, you have had to retract, clarify, and withdraw various...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 09:31 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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David,

1. Does the offer stand? Yes or no, please.

2. Would you or would you not "seriously worry about getting beat"? Yes or no.

As for the rest, I already told you not to worry...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 08:21 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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Ok. Read your your post. I am not quite sure where I lied but perhaps I did.

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How many times do I have to spell this out for you? Here are two simple lies that...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 05:23 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

Ok. Read your your post. I am not quite sure where I lied but perhaps I did. Here is the truth. Anyone who believes that a a belief in Jesus is probably a necessary and sufficient condition to escape...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 05:04 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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It was ridiculous of DS to write a list of the ten smartest people in history and then suggest that his father may deserve a place in it.

Such a list can only be...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 04:53 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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It was ridiculous of DS to write a list of the ten smartest people in history and then suggest that his father may deserve a place in it.

Such a list can only be valid if extreme...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 04:45 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

Stop getting so technical on me. Do you disagree with the following:

Newton and Leibniz calculated derivatives by at first pretending that the slight increase in x and y was finite and then when...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-22-2007, 10:13 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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And I still say that calculus should be taught with infintesimals. If the other technique comes in handy for a tiny number of practitioners of esoteric science, there is no...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-17-2007, 04:57 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

The bottom line is that both examples brought up so far don't count, if for no other reason than that neither comment was made by me with certainty. The algorithm post was merely a tentive idea that...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 07:29 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By David Sklansky
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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There's the vietnam war fallacy. Can't find the link but its in that book he keeps peddling.

Something about being able to tell the war was a failure just by considering the state of...
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