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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (102109)1/27/2009 10:57:14 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 542711
 
And, moreover, not necessarily a sin but a way a poster might choose simply to change the conversation.

That's a good wedge to insert my comment about outliers, which I use to shake up self-contained and self-serving logical models that are put to me. It's a simple logical test to see if a model applies in a wide variety of situations or simply the context in which it was originally put.

The common sin on SI and elsewhere is to extrapolate broadly from narrow examples, declare a general rule or principle and ignore those cases where applying that rule to a different case produces a negative outcome.

Critical thinking versus simply accepting declarations at face value.
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