2006-02-12

Analogy Police

Do you ever find it annoying when people att empt to win arguments using invalid analogies? Dilbert has the answer...
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4 comments:

  1. Luboš Motl12/02/2006, 18:11

    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. ;-)

    Best
    LM

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  2. nige13/02/2006, 12:46

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  3. William M. Connolley13/02/2006, 17:12

    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.

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  4. nige13/02/2006, 20:50

    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

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