/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15474876]

What are some indicators you're talking to a brainlet? For me it's
>occam'z razor
>burden of proof
>falsifiable

[Anonymous No.15474884]

>>15474876
gr8b8m8

[Anonymous No.15474887]

>>15474876
"Prove me wrong"

[Anonymous No.15474889]

>>15474876
And you wonder why people think you're difficult?

[Anonymous No.15474904]

Shit thread posters.
Can't fucking stand them

[Anonymous No.15474906]

What are some indicators you're talking to a brainlet? For me it's
>What are some indicators you're talking to a brainlet? For me it's
>>occam'z razor
>>burden of proof
>>falsifiable

[Anonymous No.15474913]

making threads on /lit/ not about literature

sage

[Anonymous No.15474921]

>>15474876
normally it's not what they say but how they say it, if I find myself getting interrupted a lot, that's a huge red flag

[Anonymous No.15475120]

The concepts are not bad per se, but they're misused so much that you can almost guarantee they are being misused if you encounter them.

[Anonymous No.15475133]

>>15474876
How does it feel knowing you can never prove your retarded beliefs :-)

[Anonymous No.15475255]

>>15474904
I'm in love

[Anonymous No.15475802]

>>15474876
Lately a friend of mine has been asking me to source every single thing that I say, and he's not trying to be a dick but I don't remember where I first read every damn statistic that's in my head. This shit annoys me because if I'm bothering to engage you in the first place you should take it in good faith that I'm not pulling statistics out my ass.

[Anonymous No.15475827]

>>15475802
Simply send him this pic every single time he does it

[Anonymous No.15475828]

>>15474876
The only one of those that's actually stupid is Occam's razor.

[Anonymous No.15475841]

>>15474876
Occam’s razor and hitchens razor are so useless. So many people assert them thinking it means anything when it’s actually just a way to shut down an argument when you realize neither claims have any meaningful substance to them.

[Anonymous No.15475954]

>>15474876
>the thing is
>people don't realize
>if people would only just _____
>devil's advocate

[Anonymous No.15475961]

>>15475802
You're probably just stupid and your friend is trying to get you to do more research so he doesn't have to intellectually dunk on you.

[Anonymous No.15475978]

The problem with burden of proof is which ever idea gets put in place first never has to prove itself, and so it could be as unreasonable as all the other ideas but because it was there first people accept it as the standard that needs to have something more provable come along to displace it.

I think all ideas should be required to provide proof of their validity each and every time they are invoked. No taking anything for granted.

[Anonymous No.15475982]

Not comfortable of even thinking about anything outside of his own carefully constructed materialist worldview. Can only respond with ridicule because he is always in over his head.

[Anonymous No.15475998]

>>15475961
Probably true.
>>15475982
Imagine wasting time on fables and the dronings on off second rate idealist hucksters.

[Anonymous No.15476291]

>>15474876
For me it's
>For me it's

[Anonymous No.15476294]

>>15474876
If you're talking to me, that's a pretty good sign.

[None !YBXpLRHezk No.15476316]

>>15476291
Magnificent shitpost, ironically.

[Anonymous No.15476355]

>>15475827

[Anonymous No.15476556]

>when he doesn't know his modus ponens from his modus tollens

[Anonymous No.15476600]

>>15474876
"prove your position on X"
"its the LEFT"
"its the RIGHT"
"it's the Dems"
"but Trump"
people who watch 3-hour "debates" and of ecelebs and think their side "won"

[Anonymous No.15476800]

>>15475961
except the stuff he's asking me about is stuff that I went to grad school for, so I'd have to say no, unless by doing more research you mean ignoring my education in favor of random internet articles

[Anonymous No.15476871]

>>15476800
But it's on the Internet. You really think people would do that?, go on the Internet and tell lies?

[Anonymous No.15478437]

>>15474876
>>occam'z razor
>>burden of proof
Absolute trash with no value whatsoever.
>>falsifiable
This one is legitimate in its domain.

[Anonymous No.15478450]

>>15474906
What are some indicators you're talking to a brainlet? For me it's
>What are some indicators you're talking to a brainlet? For me it's
>>What are some indicators you're talking to a brainlet? For me it's
>>>occam'z razor
>>>burden of proof
>>>falsifiable

[Anonymous No.15478579]

>>15476800

How old is your friend asking you for sources? My retarded brother in law does this. He recently got a BA from some shitty school. I think retards who are in school (or just out of it) do so because they lack the ability to acquire information themselves, let alone to make inferences. College has taught them
>Prove what was said in class
>Confirm all your thoughts with studies, use study's when you have any thought that isn't your own.
> paper gets A

I told him how the expanding deserts in Africa and increased dust storms are displacing people and having an impact on terrorism (my field of expertise for over a decade) and he wanted studies proving the link. If he had any prior knowledge he would be able to infer how the environment affects economy's and governments, how terrorism is tied to economics and governments, how African desert = bad, etc. For new phenomena there are not always studies, but college at the lower levels doesn't discuss specific and new topics, you go over long well established information. I also think professors undersell the replication crisis (if they even mention it) which makes most studies in certain fields complete horse shit. Students don't understand this or that a study might have bias, so they get a deluded sense of security in what they know.

Basically retards don't learn to think critically in school and don't independently acquire information. This leads to them being cunts in casual conversations, like I'm a walking fucking JSTOR.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-niger-rising-temperatures-mean-barren-fields-but-fertile-ground-for-terrorism example of the impacts

[Anonymous No.15478586]

>intellectually honest

[Anonymous No.15478592]

>>15475978
But can you prove that?

[Anonymous No.15480321]

Citation of informal fallacies as if they were arguments.

[Anonymous No.15480327]

Fiction

[Anonymous No.15480471]

>>15480321
That's a good one, in forums it indicates the person is underage or retarded. I haven't heard anyone say it in real life as a personal accusation, just a description.

[Anonymous No.15480646]

>>15474876
Probably having criteria to judge people's intelligence instead of evaluating them in context of what their day to day interactions require.

[Anonymous No.15481111]

>>15480646
we already made that observation retard

[Anonymous No.15481737]

>alienation
>surplus value
>state-capitalism
>dialectics

[Anonymous No.15481770]

>correlation is not causation

[Anonymous No.15481895]

>>15478579
based

[Anonymous No.15483294]

>>15474876
>Common sense

[Anonymous No.15483479]

>>15474876
>problematic
>performative
>lens
>unpack
>blindspot
>my truth
>lived experience
>late stage capitalism

[Anonymous No.15484588]

>>15474876
>pointing out seeming contradictions
>straw man
>gaslighting
>resorting to personal attacks/ad hominem
>referring to anything as "objective"
>thinking their perspective is "reality"
>referring to liberals as leftists

[Anonymous No.15484622]

>>15478579
>expanding deserts

I mean thats a pretty bold claim with no proof to back it up, can you at least post some secondary source?

[Anonymous No.15484639]

>>15484588
>>referring to liberals as leftists
Look americans have different labels

[Anonymous No.15484654]

>>15474876
I instantly ignore any adult that spends a significant amount of time playing video games. There's a guy at work that regularly talks about Twitch streamers and it's unbelievably pathetic.

[Anonymous No.15484668]

>>15474904
White women truly are superior