Sherlock!
Today I watched Sherlock for the first time, since it finally came on PBS. The episode I saw was The Hounds of Baskerville and it is awesome. Also, when John mentioned Sherlock’s Aspergers I kind of melted. There aren’t many TV characters I identify with, but he was an exception. Could have been more Aspie though, in my opinion. Nonetheless, I am officially in the fandom. So yay.
Thou shall not attack the person’s character, but the argument. (Ad hominem)
Thou shall not misrepresent or exaggerate a person’s argument in order to make them easier to attack. (Straw man fallacy)
Thou shall not use small numbers to represent the whole. (Hasty generalization)
Thou shall not argue thy position by assuming one of its premises is true. (Begging the question)
Thou shall not claim that because something occurred before, it must be the cause. (Post Hoc/False cause)
Thou shall not reduce the argument down to two possibilities. (False dichotomy)
Thou shall not argue that because of our ignorance, claim must be true or false. (Ad ignorantum)
Thou shall not lay the burden of proof onto him that is questioning the claim. (Burden of proof reversal)
Thou shall not assume “this” follows “that” when it has no logical connection. (Non sequitur)
Thou shall not claim that because a premise is popular, therefore it must be true. (Bandwagon fallacy)
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
Carl Sagan (via hamstershorts)
