<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Aug 25, 2020, at 2:04 PM, Jason Resch via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Reviewing ten theories of life after death gives the reader a lot of</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
content to deal with and reminds me of the Gish Gallop debating<br>
technique. (Not intended to criticize the strength of your arguments).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've heard it called the "laundry list" form of argumentation, to give a bunch of weak reasons and hope they add up to a strong one. I agree that's not particularly persuasive.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe that’s called ten leaky buckets argument and it’s not really the Gish Gallup. The latter is used in debates to overwhelm an opponent (and the arguments needn’t be fallacious or erroneous) while the former is just fallacious reasoning. </div><div><br></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></body></html>