- 3/6/14 06:47 pm
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slikts> I am firmly in the I-can't-be sure/steady-as-she-goes camp
every dope commenting on YouTube probably thinks the same way about themselves. the thing is, it's very hard to know what you don't know, so people end up trotting out sophomoric fallacies and miss it because they're sure of their competence; after all, they probably have some success navigating the everyday world, maybe they're grownups who manage to support a family, or seem to intellectually outclass their peers, or whatever, so this competence must also apply to the conceptual realm, but it often doesn't. a fallacy in this case is that even if you take a shallow view on it and accept emotive language as a sign of irrationality, it doesn't necessarily place both sources at the same level. you can see for yourself what epistemic standards RationalWiki adopts if you look through their articles, so even if they aren't a neutral or academic source, it doesn't follow that you can simply lump them together with any crank site.