Friday, August 27, 2010

SIDE BAR: Thou Shall not Argue Idly


Reductio ad Absurdum:

Of self proclaimed wiseheads, bighead know it alls and ignorant fools...

is it not said not to argue with them…

Because people can't be talked out of their illusions,

a good way to remove foolishness is to indulge it.

Of what profit would it be to argue all day with a blind man who thought an elephant to be a thin creature,

didn't he regard it with his very palm?

 whilst all he handled was its tail…

If a person believes that the Earth is flat, you can't talk him out of that.

He knows it's flat. Look out the window and see; it's obvious, it looks flat.

The only way to convince him is to say 'Well let's go and find the edge.'

- Reduction to absurdity;

 
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