Re: The job of NASA

Ian Parker <ianparker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:On 26 Nov, 15:13, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>
:> :
:> :What the blazes do you mean? It is a straightforward libel of a
:> :particularly nasty kind. That's what it is.
:> :
:>
:> Poor Ian. This has been explained to him several times and he still
:> remains stupidly and obstinately ignorant.
:>
:> Ian, there is a logical fallacy called 'complex question'. What it
:> amounts to is to ask a question that *assumes* that the answer to an
:> unasked question desired by the person engaging in the fallacy has
:> already been given and agreed to. The modern 'classical' complex
:> question is "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" It *assumes*
:> that the question "Do you beat your wife?" has already been asked and
:> answered in the affirmative.
:>
:> You engage in this fallacy constantly. Rand is merely posing a
:> similar sort of question to you in order to demonstrate what sort of
:> preposterous propositions can be put forward by such means. Your
:> reaction demonstrates a few things:
:>
:> 1) He's apparently accidentally struck a nerve, which would indicate
:> that his 'preposterous' remark is not perhaps so preposterous after
:> all.
:>
:> 2) You're a paranoid loon.
:>
:> 3) You're incredibly stupid.
:>
:> Is it starting to sink in yet?
:>
:> --
:> "Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
:> only stupid."
:> -- Heinrich Heine
:
:I still don't know what the hell you are talking about.
:

Take a basic logic course, you stupid ***.

Let me help you get started:

http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/cq.htm

:
:A libel is a
:libel. It is not a question.
:

Given some of the lying bull*** you've said about me over time,
you're just fortunate that the Code Duello is not still in effect.


--
"You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of
your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear."
-- Mark Twain
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