Arnold Zwicky's Blog

Today’s Scenes From a Multiverse:

Call them A (on the left) and B (on the right). B’s leaps in conversational reasoning are totally baffling to A (and pretty baffling to me), though they resemble forms of invalid reasoning you can find on the net, most involving aggressive wild overgeneralization (all cats are French, you’ll be forcing everyone to get gay-married, the lack of dogs means unfairness).

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