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Subject:	Re: This should be required reading for this group...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:57:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes: > http://www.akat.com/reasoning.htm > > Is there an off-topic curator? This article should be in the .debate sidebar. Interesting article but I couldn't tell what it was you thought were doing when you cited it. :-) Or why it's a must read. The people that would benefit from reading it won't do so or won't understand the point it makes. :-)

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		Re: This should be required reading for this group...
(...) It makes a handy and compelling virtual stick to beat unreasonable people with? And at times, pretty much everyone in here is guilty of unreasoning. Certainly the strong disconnect between reasons and conclusions has been observed here, in (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: This should be required reading for this group...
(...) Agree. I can see someone looking at the example with the company buying the half-million dollar purchase, commenting on how obviously absurd it was to consider it "reasonable", and then going ahead and making the same mistake without a 2nd (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		This should be required reading for this group...
(URL) there an off-topic curator? This article should be in the .debate sidebar. IMHO, of course. :) James (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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