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Since the 1970s the utility of knowing about fallacies has been acknowledged (Johnson and Blair 1993), and the way in which fallacies are incorporated into theories of argumentation is taken as a sign of a theory's level of adequacy (Biro and Siegel 2007, van Eemeren 2010).
Magnus and Callender argue that "wholesale" arguments that are intended to support realism (or antirealism) about science as a whole (rather than "retail" arguments that are applied to a specific theory) are only taken seriously because of our propensity to engage in the 'base rate fallacy' of evaluating probabilities without knowing all the relevant information.
But on her way to Bath to celebrate New Year, she and her trusty husband get lost: "The fields are endless, the trees smug, knowing as they do that they will be around for ever". I liked this version of the pathetic fallacy.
He includes many graphics that demonstrate the super-outdated fallacy that the Big Bang means "extrapolating back to t=0" and takes place before inflation, despite knowing this cannot be so.
Not knowing.
Not knowing is worse than knowing.
There were knowing chuckles.
Others exchange knowing glances.
"I am knowing, Father.
Not knowing does too.
Is knowing important?
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