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Article posted 6 January 2015 January 06, 2015 at 05:36PM [via Facebook] posted 3pm

The APA division meeting Book Exhibit room is basically Toyland for me, especially during the traditional last-day clearance sale. Picked up these two back in Philadelphia. (I am still seeking the third part of the trilogy.)

Article posted 6 January 2015 January 06, 2015 at 02:50PM [via Facebook] posted 12pm

So I am working on transcribing an article against the Klan from one of the issues of Edward Fultonâ€™s magazine of many names (here, The Egoist) and the article is focusing a lot of discussion on the Oklahoma Klan and the governor’s declaration of martial law. Yhe article is in 1925, so I am *assuming* he means the declaration of martial law in 1923? Anyway, Oklahoma people: Any suggestions on background readings that I might do to get a decent overview picture of events around this time?

Article posted 5 January 2015 January 06, 2015 at 01:54AM [via Facebook] posted 11pm

So basically all of the Marvel Studios animated series that have come out in the last few years, they seem to be kind of not so great to awful?

Article posted 5 January 2015 Cranky Notions. In THE MUTUALIST Vol. V. No. 1, Whole No. 49 (October 1925) [via Facebook] posted 1pm

To-day at Fair Use Repository: After Tucker’s LIBERTY closed up shop, Jo Labadie went looking for new homes for his “Cranky Notions” column. One of the places it landed was Edward H. Fulton’s magazine of many names, here called THE MUTUALIST. http://ift.tt/14qwQB9

Cranky Notions. In THE MUTUALIST Vol. V. No. 1, Whole No. 49 (October 1925)

[7]Cranky Notions by Jo Labadie So as to get understanding in the discussion of economics there must be a fixity in terms. There must be that unyielding, exact rigidity in the defining and use of words as we find in mathematics if economics is ever to be worthy of the designation of a science. Wordsâ€¦

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Article posted 5 January 2015 January 05, 2015 at 03:32PM [via Facebook] posted 1pm

To-day at Fair Use Repository: After Tucker’s LIBERTY closed up shop, Jo Labadie went looking for new homes for his “Cranky Notions” column. One of the places it landed was Edward H. Fulton’s magazine of many names, here called THE MUTUALIST. http://ift.tt/14qwQB9

Article posted 5 January 2015 Michelle Windsor [via Facebook] posted 8am

I have a friend in need of information about some traffic tickets. I have no idea what the answers to these questions is, but maybe some of y’all do?

Michelle Windsor

My latest crisis: I got pulled over on the interstate recently for improperly wearing a seatbelt. I was wearing the seatbelt, but it was under my arm. They ended up giving me two tickets, but because one ticket was folded inside the other, I didn’t notice the second ticket until I got home. Vaguely enough, the tickets only stated “illegally operated vehicle” without any further specification. I called the small town’s city hall to ask how I should pay the tickets, and why I had two of them. They told me one ticket was for “improbable speed” (whatever that means ) and failure to display insurance. I told him that the charges were not the same as the officers had told me when they pulled me over, but he didn’t care. I looked up the fines and they are enormous. I don’t know what to do. Unfortunately I did not record the incident on my iphone. The city hall officer/spokesman I spoke to said that the officers who pulled me over have video footage that can verify the charges. I asked how this was possible unless they were wearing bodycams, and he told me that they were in fact wearing bodycams. I have no idea whether he’s telling the truth, and I guess the only way to find out is by showing up in court and asking. But if they deny the body cameras, how can I prove the officer/representative lied to me over the phone? I’m not allowed to record the call unless I ask permission first, right? And what am I supposed to say or do in court to defend myself? It’s my word against the two officers who pulled me over.

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Article posted 4 January 2015 January 04, 2015 at 06:26PM [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

Sidebar. Being able to describe an argument as having a “motte-and-bailey” structure is not actually a refutation of the argument you’re characterizing that way. Lots of good arguments involve noting a weaker claim and a stronger claim; so do lots of bad arguments. In real world arguments people will often go back and forth between an argument on the weaker claim and an argument on the stronger claim because their interlocutor reacts to the stronger claim in ways that don’t seem rationally defensible; so the weaker claim is brought up to serve as a kind of sanity check before going back to the argument about the stronger claim. Now the interesting question in all this is whether your interlocutor is moving from the weaker to the stronger by means of a cogent argument (in which case what they’re doing isn’t fallacious at all), or moving from one to the other without further argument (in which case what they’re doing is begging the question), or just actually equivocating between the weaker claim and the stronger claim. If the last, then of course they are committing a fallacy. (To wit, the fallacy of equivocation.) But to show they are doing that, you’ve got to actually engage with and criticize the argument, not just characterize it as involving a weaker claim and a stronger one.

Article posted 3 January 2015 January 03, 2015 at 04:57PM [via Facebook] posted 2pm

e^x really is a pretty cool function tho

Article posted 3 January 2015 January 03, 2015 at 02:15PM [via Facebook] posted 12pm

http://ift.tt/1CZLKfG itâ€™s tru tho

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