How to win an argument 15 Jul 201215 Jul 2012 It’s basically a slippery slope: As always click through. Humor Logic and philosophy
Humor What do colourless green ideas do? They sleep, furiously 27 Nov 2007 This little piece by netfriend Richard Harter, who apparently predates coal, serves to demonstrate that philosophers really aren’t clever enough at thinking up counterexamples… Read More
Humor Gems from Tom Waits 25 Oct 2008 Waits is one of the few people I admire almost without reservation, even including the industrial blues. A comment quoted on a passing web site was “We are monkeys with money and guns”, leading me via Google to this wonderful interview at NPR a few months back. Read it. I… Read More
Humor Darwinian gardening 2 Jan 2008 For some time now I have told anyone who didn’t get away fast enough that I am a Darwinian Gardener: any plant that survives my total lack of care deserves to be there until it gets in my way. After the fact, I justify it that I am letting native… Read More
oh. I thought you were going to say “Don’t be adversarial, but instead find a reasoning that would work for them, even it’s fallacious, to push them in the right direction. Then wait and repeat.”