Actually this stuff is well-known among medieval historians. Galileo didn't pop out of nowhere but was the climax of a very long tradition of philosophy and mathematics. The people that don't know at least the gist of stuff are the same that believe that people of the medieval period believed the Earth was flat.
Need to sort out you Video and Audio quality(s) -The high frequency buzzing/cycling beep humb is some kind of digital humb maybe (a shot in the dark guess) from one of your connections (wires / "ground loop humb?" ) and being recoerded into your audio. And then, when using images i.e. the one of the police wagon with "being offensive is and offence" maybe consider downloading higher resolution images so they're not blurry. -Then upload to youtube in Minimum 720p. Because we can hear the buzz and we cant read the images Not to mention vocal distorion but that's probaly a mic thing ( at least that's the first thing i'd check). Friendly intentioned suggestions. I liked your presentation style and the use of slides, to refer to the questions aswell as being an interactive way for us viewer to follow along / actively partake in the topic Just would be helpful if you paid more effort into audio-visual quality as its not the best , to be a bit blunt. . hope this feed back helps, But if not then tell me to stick it I suppose ;) Have a good one and keep 'em coming!!
Actual slippery slope = I'll slip and break my arm, won't be able to work, end up on the street, bum the last cigarette off a secret service agent, he'll be busy buying a new pack while the president is assassinated, then the country will be overrun with Chinese communists. Its effects with nonsense cause or massive chasms of reasoning. Issue is as with most debate, morons misattribute fallacy to any argument they can't defeat.
Slippery slope is fallacious BUT its also proving to be quite accurate with the Left - give em an inch and they take a mile.. they went from sexual revolution/gay marriage - to full on trying to force Pride kink onto children in schools, and making everything gay in movies, and shoving LGBTQ in everything they can thnk of
The slippery slope is fallacious when no reasoning is given to support why x would lead to y and so forth. There is a vast difference between deductive reasoning and a slippery slope
Slippery slope is a fallacy, because it does not logically prove anything, to make a slippery slope argument you need to say what standard or cause will go from one thing to the next. Gay marriage is a slippery slope to Pedophilia is a logically sound statement only if the argument being given for gay marriage is "all love is equal" If the argument for gay marriage is "consenting adults' love should be respected" then pedophilia does not follow. The slippery slope fallacy is when someone implies something will lead to another because they have some similar quality, the non fallacious version is just a logical argument similar to mathematical induction. The fallacious logic is the unproven slippery slope.
The fallacy, is that it’s always a slippery slope, just because. A slippery slope doesn’t have to be a fallacy. It just is, in general, and it’s not a good argument to use, in general, as the sole argument.
At least you admit that you'd take a totalitarian approach to law enforcement. For realpolitik to be realpolitik you can't start with spurious assumptions like peaceful British republicanism causing WW3.
In this case, as long as they're detained without charge and released within 24 hours, you haven't violated their statutory rights, but you've acted prudently within your legal power as the police. Thus, the actual principle involved of habeas corpus is intact.
Thanks for this review, i was just watching an interview with Brian Cox, and he mentioned this book. I was looking for an audiobook version of the book. Thanks for this little taster 🙂
There are miriad ways to explain to others what we perceive as reality. Mathematics is only one of the mechanisms we can employ, art and music are other ways. Maths doesn't explain anything if you cannot do the math
Going back to early 1990s', there was one privately owned 35mm print with English subtitles (the BBC dubbed it). I was privileged to have screened the same print many times at a Regional Film Theatre, always on a Philips DP75 pair. It was, of course, all in splendid (dye transfer) colour. It looked lovely on a big screen.
In the interests of balance it should be pointed out that Matt Ridley, whose book The Evolution of Everything you rightly praise, has publicly recommended Speech! as "a genuine intellectual feast of ideas" -- and in private correspondence called it "truly one of the most intelligent books I have read in a long time." Perhaps that's because he correctly understands that it is not a book about language, but about the consequences of language -- as the subtitle makes clear. Just saying.
That's fair enough. I simply don't agree. I guess I was expecting something more along the lines of Pinker's The Language Instinct or How the Mind Works.
