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| 7e17b09 | most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc. | religion pz-myers logical-fallacy theology | Richard Dawkins | |
| 419073e | "It would appear to a quoting dilettante--i.e., one of those writers and scholars who fill up their texts with phrases from some dead authority--that, as phrased by Hobbes, "from like antecedents flow like consequents." Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship's captain: | learning-from-experiences logical-fallacy predictions titanic | Nicholas Nassim Taleb |