{"id":30182122,"date":"2009-02-13T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2009\/02\/13\/On-Arguing\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T14:45:25","slug":"On-Arguing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=30182122","title":{"rendered":"On Arguing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon Review of : <a href='http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/arguing.html'>http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/arguing.html<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/click_redir.php?t=49a285446fc06&#038;src=blog&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zompist.com%2Farguing.html'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 620px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 15px; color : #ca8; text-align : justify; background : #2a2a2a; border : 1px solid #666;\">From the page: How do you diagnose crankery? The surest telltale is unfalsifiability. Cranks are often tireless researchers; but they only accumulate positive evidence. They cherry-pick mainstream sources for factoids that support their position and ignore everything else. The linguistic ones, armed with dictionaries, amass mountains of &#8216;evidence&#8217;. But they never contemplate a test that might reject their hypothesis. A skeptical professor I know has a simple test for people who want to argue with him: &#8220;What would it take to prove you wrong?&#8221;\u009d For a crank the answer is &#8220;Nothing could.&#8221;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/arguing.html From the page: How do you diagnose crankery? The surest telltale is unfalsifiability. Cranks are often tireless researchers; but they only accumulate positive evidence. They cherry-pick mainstream sources for factoids that support their position and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=30182122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30182122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30182122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30182122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30182122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}