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	<title>Comments on: Pertinaciously Obstinate</title>
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		<title>By: Gaikokumaniakku</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gaikokumaniakku</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 02:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have little respect for Hume, but this is a case where the blind pig, Hume, found an acorn.

The remedies to disingenuous argument include:

a) authenticated signaling,

and

b) argument diagrams.


Argument diagrams prevent total con men from subverting formal debate.

Authenticated signaling can be done by professional dedication to academic achievements.

E.g. I argue in favor of anti-realist philosophy of science.

Angry people on the Internet claim that I am not sincere because no intelligent could (they claim) believe in anti-realism.

And then I trot out a long list of the textbooks I have written, all of which are dedicated to showing that Feyerabend and Quine and Martin have convinced me of anti-realist philosophy.

That&#039;s the theory, anyway.  In fact I have not written even a single book, much less an academic textbook.

So at the moment, I am reduced to saying, &quot;I can&#039;t prove that I&#039;m a sincere anti-realist, but here are books written by far more accomplished scholars, all of whom are sincere anti-realists.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have little respect for Hume, but this is a case where the blind pig, Hume, found an acorn.</p>
<p>The remedies to disingenuous argument include:</p>
<p>a) authenticated signaling,</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>b) argument diagrams.</p>
<p>Argument diagrams prevent total con men from subverting formal debate.</p>
<p>Authenticated signaling can be done by professional dedication to academic achievements.</p>
<p>E.g. I argue in favor of anti-realist philosophy of science.</p>
<p>Angry people on the Internet claim that I am not sincere because no intelligent could (they claim) believe in anti-realism.</p>
<p>And then I trot out a long list of the textbooks I have written, all of which are dedicated to showing that Feyerabend and Quine and Martin have convinced me of anti-realist philosophy.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the theory, anyway.  In fact I have not written even a single book, much less an academic textbook.</p>
<p>So at the moment, I am reduced to saying, &#8220;I can&#8217;t prove that I&#8217;m a sincere anti-realist, but here are books written by far more accomplished scholars, all of whom are sincere anti-realists.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says Hume as he blindly adheres to his argument.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Says Hume as he blindly adheres to his argument.</p>
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