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22 November 2005 - 19:12 UTCScott Adams (yes, that Scott Adams) at The Dilbert Blog dissects blogging “debate” based upon the results of his invitation to the readers of his blog to tell him why he is stupid.
I should have expected it, but Adams’ blog has quickly turned into one of the most amusing things I encounter on any given day.
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Beware of the ‘Black Swan’ fallacy. Deductive logic is tautological; there is no way to get a new truth out of it, and it manipulates false statements as readily as true ones. If you fail to remember this, it can trip you – with perfect logic. The designers of the earliest computers called this the ‘Gigo Law,’ i.e., ‘Garbage in, garbage out.’
Inductive logic is much more difficult – but can produce new truths.
—Lazarus Long
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Dilberts Rules for Internet Debate
Scott Adams provides a too-real-to-life guide to debating on the Internet.
1. Turn someones generality into an absolute. For example, if someone makes a general statement that Americans celebrate Christmas, point out that some people are Jewish…
By Outside The Beltway on 11.22.05 20:01
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