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weasel words, […] Presidents […] may therefore be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else - ‘police actions’, ‘armed incursions’, ‘protective reaction strikes’, ‘pacification’,‘safeguarding American interests’, and a wide variety of ‘operations’, such as ‘Operation Just Cause’. Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, ‘An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public’.

惯用伎俩了,原来叫 weasel words…刚好前段时间在 里也读到含糊用词 rhabarberbarbara.bar/@unagi/10

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Observational selection, also called the enumeration of favourable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses (e.g., a state boasts of the Presidents it has produced, but is silent on its serial killers).

唔,感觉这应该是我最容易犯的一种逻辑谬误…

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学到一种逻辑谬误:special pleading(片面辩护),就是说论证的时候故意忽略掉不利于自己观点的方面,或者指明某个东西是特例但又不说为什么是特例。主要是维基里这几个例子太好笑了​:aru_0160:​:

  • 為了節省開支,員工出差只准買最便宜的機票,但我是老闆,所以我可以買最好的。
  • 我國國情不同,因此西式民主暫時不適合我國。
  • 女生該注重外表,應該常保自己的外表乾乾淨淨的,應該留長頭髮但不該有體毛,而且皮膚要白、身材要瘦、身上不能有痘子或疤痕;不過男生不必注重外表。
  • 我們應該平等對待所有族群的人,但韓國人很賤,因此韓國人除外。
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Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in thi future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there ar no authorities; at most, there are experts.

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What sceptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct and to understand, a reasoned argument and, especially important, to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like
the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follows from the premises or starting point and whether that premise is true.

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@Federweisser 因为我关注了你那个号,但是没有另外站的人关注你这个号?可以用那个号关注一下这个号看看…

@mengminghan 但我还是没懂菜油跟这有什么关系…我以为只有燃油受影响…

@mengminghan 完蛋了我室友说买不到油了​:aru_0160:
家里还有两瓶橄榄油,但那个不能高温…

@mengminghan 果然看见了 aus der Region,包装跟我们完全不一样​:aru_0160:​好贵啊…

@mengminghan 我在想是不是牛奶鸡蛋这种是 lokal 农民供货,所以不同地方价格也会不同??你们那儿农民 irgendwie 受到了更大影响??
我过两天再去超市看看​:aru_0160:

@mengminghan 我看了下我大概十天前去超市购物的单子,买了一百欧,没发现有东西涨价…刚开始打仗的时候还看到超市摆这个牌子

@mengminghan 你们那边怎么那么恐怖?我们这 REWE 没看见涨了啊, REWE Online 也都还是以前的价格… shop.rewe.de/productList?searc

@komma 用手机壳我觉得太厚!看运气吧,我也摔过很多次,有磕碰的痕迹但是没有碎​:aru_0160:

@komma 是这样吗我都不知道​:ablobbounce:​但肯定有的时候会比较懒…

用了两年多的手机突然出现很多划痕,以前好像没有,难道是因为我这两天有把手机跟钥匙放在一个口袋里​:aru_0520:

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