Saturday, March 7, 2015

The power of the Internet

Here's an odd one. I was having a discussion (bordering on an argument) about the use of a term. I simply could not convince the other person through logical arguments. So I said, "Let's look it up!" We opened my iPad, went to Wikipedia, and looked it up. According to this fine resource, I was correct. Issue resolved. Afterwards, I thought about just how wrong that was! Wikipedia is composed of contributions by the public, mostly unverified. So, if you want to "prove" a fallacy, post it on Wikipedia, then go make your point and look itn up before anyone discovers it and corrects you!

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