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		erikpukinskis on April 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders Whether or not you turn out to be correct has no bearing on whether your reasoning was fallacious.

lmm on April 10, 2016 [–]

Most so-called fallacies are empirically effective (though not valid proofs in classical logic). Public statements from kooks really are false at a much higher rate than public statements from non-kooks.

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