[WikiEN-l] Re: For anyone who thought NPOV wasn't all that hard

[Poor, Edmund W]

Colleges are dispensers of job training, warehouses that sell knowledge.


You go there to get certified. They used to be places where you went to
get an Education.

There's more to being an educated person than stuffing your head full of
data and info that which is useful in your career. Go to DeVry if you
want vo-tech training.

They even took Logic out of the curriculum. You don't learn obvious,
classically tried and true things like the syllogism. What's that, it
sounds dirty ("jism").

* All men are mortal.
* Socrates is a man.
* Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

If A is true, than B is true.
But B is not true!
Then A could not POSSIBLY be true.

And that's the simple stuff. Don't forget the rhetorical fallacies like
ad hominem, guilt by association, non sequitor, circular argument, and
dozens of others which are STILL BEING USED today. 

The worst part is that Wikipedians use these fallacies on talk pages.

Ed Poor