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"'Occam's razor' is a psyop invented by the CIA to terminate thoughts critical of the US regime"
Is it? At least how it's used nowadays?
I'm really interested in logic and logical techniques and logical fallacies.
Just want to know if the OP is just meming or if they're referencing something.
Pretty sure just memeing, also their pronouns aren't he/him comrade.
Thanks for telling me the pronouns!
ty for editing the top comment
No problem.
I feel embarrassed getting the pronouns wrong when they're right there next to the name and I use "he" automatically sometimes.
So embarrassing and rude.
My bad, everyone.
No worries, I had to de-masculinize my language too, once I became aware of it. It's very normal to default to "he" when no gender is assumed. It doesn't get easier when my account name is a typical masculine name (I chose it as a reference, but now my avatar is changed).
It's very nice of you to be embarrassed about it, but you don't have to be, as long as you're doing your best ♥️
To be honest, I do use "they" more often now (compared to a year ago) because I was told that, if you don't know the gender, just use "they."
So I'm doubly embarrassed lol
But thanks! And my mistake, of course.
Oh gotcha. And thanks for telling me.
Just memeing. I don't think it's invented by the CIA, I am just infuriated by the fact that any critical thought about our system gets met with a ready-made thought terminating cliché, and the worst of the bunch is, to me, these short hands like Occam's Razor, which I exclusively see used by fart smellers thinking they're smart fellas.
Tbh, I feel like people abuse Occam's Razor anyway.
Even if it's a logical thing to use, the way it's used is, err, illogical.
Yeah that's mainly my.issue with it. With all the rhetorical and deductive tools really. I've never seen "ad hominem" used in good faith, and I've never seen "Occam's razor" invoked in an argument for a conspiracy. It's always done by dumb redditors thinking they're being clever and like Sherlock Holmes
Tbh, a lot of things are "ad hominems;" people do it all the time in arguments and I think it's wrong, but it's a logical fallacy with a bias when it's ever invoked.
"Whataboutism" is an argument that's still invoked, but us MLs know that one well lmao
FRIENDLY FIRE FRIENDLY FIRE WATCH OUT ITS GONE ROGUE
Oh I'm not against the fallacies per se, just like I'm not against the concept of deductive reasoning/tools. I just never see them get used right or by unobnoxious people. And hominem is the Hall of Famer to me, because it's just become synonymous with "you insulted me" when you can insult people without it being an ad hominem easily.
Right, and to be honest, with the discourse on the Internet in general, they've become "thought-terminating epithets," as my friend likes to say.
TIL what an epithet is
Yeah, that's the term my friend uses.
"Thought-terminating epithet."
Though he was talking about the term "revisionist" (when MLs call each other that, for example, without really getting to the crux of why they disagree).
Fellers would make it rhyme better with smellers btw
Yeah but the grammar? I thought fella was the right spelling?
The English language
It's a misspelling either way, it's saying "fellow" but with an accent/dialect. I saw "fellers" in the subtitles for Red Dead Redemption 2 last night so it's definitely used
It's a great play on words though you should definitely keep using it
Not mine sadly, but yeah it's a banger. Gonna adopt the better spelling from now - It's the idea of a smart fellow to the fart smellows
I think both "fella" and "feller" are slang versions of "fellow".
Works either way for people with non-rhotic accents!