From: herbzet on


Charlie-Boo wrote:

> The more stupider it is, the easier it is to refute

--
hz

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

-- Schiller --
From: Bart Goddard on
herbzet <herbzet(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:4C070FD9.8DC3927(a)gmail.com:

>
>
> Charlie-Boo wrote:
>
>> The more stupider it is, the easier it is to refute
>
> --
> hz
>
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
>
> -- Schiller --
>

This is what is the same about USENET and music. The
stupider the louder and the louder the stupider.

--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
From: Marshall on
On Jun 2, 1:41 pm, Transfer Principle <lwal...(a)lausd.net> wrote:
>
> I indeed asserted that if two
> people posted identical arguments, one under the
> name of a well-known "crank" and one under that of
> a newbie, the "crank" would have a harder time
> getting people to agree with them.

This is exactly as it should be.


Marshall
From: Marshall on
On Jun 2, 7:13 pm, herbzet <herb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Charlie-Boo wrote:
> > The more stupider it is, the easier it is to refute
>
> --
> hz
>
>       Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
>
>                          -- Schiller --

See also Date's Incoherence Principle:

"It is difficult to treat coherently that which is incoherent."



Marshall
From: Don Stockbauer on
On Jun 2, 9:54 pm, Marshall <marshall.spi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 1:41 pm, Transfer Principle <lwal...(a)lausd.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I indeed asserted that if two
> > people posted identical arguments, one under the
> > name of a well-known "crank" and one under that of
> > a newbie, the "crank" would have a harder time
> > getting people to agree with them.
>
> This is exactly as it should be.

Of course you'd believe in a fallacy, the "Argument Against the Man."