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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-24-2007, 05:07 PM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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Well DUH. Is this the best any of you can do? The probability algorithm, the Vietnam argument and this. All three statements were OBVIOUSLY not expected to be taken as gospel but rather...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-17-2007, 08:47 AM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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The Vietnam post was meant to focus on an unusual aspect of a war that yielded a strong argument aginst the necessity of it being fought.


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The problem is that its a very...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-17-2007, 02:05 AM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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its exactly not what DS is claiming (or at least the path he is guiding people down).

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THATS EXACTLY WHAT SKLANSKY IS SAYING!!

and andy fox got...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-11-2007, 06:38 AM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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Let's see if I follow -
I decide to bluff the river with my Ace high and put on a "I'm strong" act because the outcome I want is "he folds".
He calls. Darn,...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-11-2007, 06:35 AM
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Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies *DELETED*

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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 06:10 PM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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At the VERY least we'd have to rule out that the war achieved our goal even by losing it, for example, but I don't want to simplify it that much. Not unlike how standing up to bully and...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 11:43 AM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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Your points are good ones, but David's point is a more limited one. If I understand it correctly, it is that if we fought the war to prevent Vietnam from becoming a Communist gulag, and...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 11:24 AM
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Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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So would you hypothesize that the war stunted the spread of communism and produced a less hardline regime in Vietnam?

Because I think objective analysis would show that after Vietnam,...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 10:22 AM
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Views: 243
Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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If you assume that you fight a war to stop something from happening, and if you assume that not winning means you failed to stop it, then you can say that we...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 07:47 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By chezlaw
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...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-09-2007, 07:09 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 243
Posted By chezlaw
Re: A Compendium of Sklansky Fallacies

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 post war...
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