==Sugar Digest==
1. In their humorous treatise on political double-speak, ''Aristotle
and an Aardvark go to Washington'', Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
define 'contextomy' as "a subtle variation on the straw-man argument"
where you ''yank'' your victim's words out of context. A straw-man
argume
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
wrote:
> Am 10.06.2010 19:34, schrieb Walter Bender:
>> ==Sugar Digest==
>>
>> 1. In their humorous treatise on political double-speak, ''Aristotle
>> and an Aardvark go to Washington'', Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
>> define 'contextomy' a
Am 10.06.2010 19:34, schrieb Walter Bender:
> ==Sugar Digest==
>
> 1. In their humorous treatise on political double-speak, ''Aristotle
> and an Aardvark go to Washington'', Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
> define 'contextomy' as "a subtle variation on the straw-man argument"
> where you ''yank'
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
wrote:
> Am 10.06.2010 21:38, schrieb Daniel Drake:
>> On 10 June 2010 16:13, Christoph Derndorfer
>> wrote:
>>> I hate to play devil's advocate here (naaa, not really;-) but one might
>>> argue that based on what little we know about OLPC in
Am 10.06.2010 21:38, schrieb Daniel Drake:
> On 10 June 2010 16:13, Christoph Derndorfer
> wrote:
>> I hate to play devil's advocate here (naaa, not really;-) but one might
>> argue that based on what little we know about OLPC in Peru, arguably the
>> 2nd largest OLPC / Sugar project at the moment
On 10 June 2010 16:13, Christoph Derndorfer
wrote:
> I hate to play devil's advocate here (naaa, not really;-) but one might
> argue that based on what little we know about OLPC in Peru, arguably the
> 2nd largest OLPC / Sugar project at the moment, this ("simply passing
> out XOs and getting out
Am 10.06.2010 21:29, schrieb Walter Bender:
>>> 2. Carolyn Meeks and I submitted the final report for the Gardner
>>> Pilot Academy Sugar-on-a-Stick pilot.
>
> I was lazy and didn't include the URL in the email... just in my blog
> and the wiki. See [3].
Thanks, that's a great overview of the GPA
I wonder what name is given in rhetoric to assuming out of a few
disconnected and exceptional examples that the whole operates in a
certain way. I would want to name what I often see among those who
assume anecdotes mean the whole OLPC / Sugar project works.
Mark's biggest sin was not to qualify
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> I wonder what name is given in rhetoric to assuming out of a few
> disconnected and exceptional examples that the whole operates in a
> certain way. I would want to name what I often see among those who
> assume anecdotes mean the whole OL
On 6/13/10, Walter Bender wrote:
> I think Cathcart and Klein also have a term for your debate technique:
> characterzing an opponent's position as one that is distorting the
> truth through the poor use of statistics by engaging in an equally
> poor use of statistics. Show me the numbers. Demons
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