Recent content by la boheme

My friend, I've shown you evidence of his 1905 PhD he earned and the paper he published on it. We're not going to convince each other. Let's just agree to disagree. ;)

So? The two statements are not equivalent. And the definition doesn't even support the use of ad hominem arguments! Fair warning: I've already asked you to never post in my threads again. You have ignored my request and continue posting here and harassing me. I have reported you to the...

Please, let's not start making accusations that you can't prove and aren't true. The idea Einstein dropped out of school or didn't do well in school is one you sometimes encounter in pop culture, but it isn't true. Here's a link with a picture of his dissertation and a link to the paper he...

Of course he received many honorary degrees--he was Einstein! But he completed his doctoral thesis and received his PhD from Zurich in 1905. http://www.oapt.ca/aapt/2005_winter_meeting/Einstein_PhD_130.pdf And from your link: So the math profs decided to give Einstein a second PhD from...

Where did I say the wiki quotations were your "personal beliefs"? I said I was not familiar with some of the content from my own experience and did not know if they were true. Just because you present something from an external source doesn't mean it is automatically true or doesn't need to be...

From wiki: I read the paper he published from his dissertation. He developed a model of the random (Brownian) motion of small particles dispersed in a liquid and used it to estimate the size of the water molecules that he postulated produced the observed motions. At the time the existence of...

"Stupid drivel" is a convincing argument, isn't it? Like I said. Have a nice day. Good-bye.

You argue in very bad faith. First you accuse me of being a "liar" without any proof. Now, you call me "stupid" when it is you who are contradicting yourself. I am going to ignore these insults and continue in my arguments. You stated that an argument if valid when the conclusion follows from...

Yes, I didn't mean that INFJs or INTJs literally read minds, but that they appear to have this ability even if it actually comes from pattern recognition or some other more mundane source. What are the "particular talents" you speak of?

You produced statements. Whether they are true is another matter. And because I didn't have first-hand experience or know if they were true, I did not address them and simply stated my own answer to the question. Also, the cited description of debate doesn't show that ad hominem is permitted in...

I don't know what you mean by "contextual", but validity, as you yourself stated above, simply means "logical". Ad hominem arguments are logical fallacies and are not valid. Period. And because logic is not something used only in debates, formal or otherwise, ad hominem arguments are not valid...

One ability Ni supposedly has is the ability to read between the lines, so to speak, and intuit hidden motivations, feelings, thoughts, etc. Are you attracted to INXJs because of this quality? Do you like it that Ni "reads" your mind? Note: this thread is not about whether this ability exists...

Einstein earned a PhD in theoretical physics. He couldn't have done that if he had been a "dropout". INFPs who have aux Ne are known as imaginative writers. INTPs also have aux Ne so why can't they write metaphorically and imaginatively, too? What do you mean by "INTP writing"? If you look at...

But that's an ad hominem argument and you stated you believe such arguments are valid. So why isn't this one valid, and what are the criteria for valid ad hominem arguments, in your opinion? Why, for example, is your accusation that I was lying valid? That argument was tantamount to, "you're...

It isn't just debates but discussions, too. The problem arises because online I might be talking to an INTP but an INFJ or INTJ might decide to join the discussion. So it isn't something I can always avoid, nor do I want to avoid INFJs or INTJs. I just want to understand this phenomenon so that...