by orchaeus | Apr 20, 2020 | Shared Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemmaThe idea that a situation presents an either/or conflict (i.e: A : Safety or B : Freedom) is often the result of a false dichotomy, which is an example of a category error. Some of these errors are relatively trivial, but...
by orchaeus | Apr 20, 2020 | Status Update
“When your left-wing friends start circulating propaganda produced in the laboratories of the extreme right… you know shit’s about to get real.” — infraheard
by orchaeus | Apr 20, 2020 | Status Update
On ‘generalizations’ and irony in language: “That’s entirely understandable. I think a vast population of us harbor similar feelings and (dis)orientations at the moment. Admitting that is courageous. But language, in my view… is...
by orchaeus | Apr 20, 2020 | Status Update
“Understand that language doesn’t tell you what it means… relationships do that, and when you dispose of them… in favor of some preferred interpretation of mere language… you become an idiot.” — on purpose
by orchaeus | Apr 20, 2020 | Status Update
“It is as if the humans kept slicing into the umbilical cord that connected them to the womb of nature … until, after every possible concession to necessity… it snapped. And then, they looked around in great confusion, trying to understand the causal...
