Re: kung fu mereotopology

galathaea wrote:
labelling things crank and not considering them
has shown itself not a very efficient way of proceeding as well
particularly when quite wrong (as is common)


MoeBlee wrote:
Usually, the crank posts get COPIOUS amounts of consideration -
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of posts with detailed refutation
and explanation of exactly what is in error in the crank postings.

Occasionally there may be some quite substantvie errors in criticisms
of cranks, but I don't find it to be very common.

And a lot can be learned by people like me from the refutations
offered (and to corrections thereof when they're wrong). Keeping
the cranks honest has some useful side effects, even if in the
end it doesn't help the cranks.


[Note that my last post was more of a response to the fallacy of
appeal to authority, as well as its opposite, than to what you
actually wrote.]
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