Analogy Police
Do you ever find it annoying when people att empt to win arguments using invalid analogies? Dilbert has the answer...
posted by William Connolley at 2:18 pm
2006-02-12
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Bad analogies are bad.
For example, as a consequence of your analogy between sceptics (or skeptics) on one side and septics on other side, many of your Google AdSense advertisements - if you reload many times - on this blog are dedicated to (real) septics. ;-)
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LM
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Sorry Nigel - if you want to take a whack at Lumos and/or String Theory, the place to do that is his blog; but not here.
Dear Belette,
I think there is an allegation of censorship at Motl's blog which inspired the comment here.
However, I was mainly praising his correct statement above that "Bad analogies are bad."
Is praise an insult?
I won't make any more comments.
Thanks,
Nigel
I love Dilbert, funny stuff!
Matt
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