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| That is the classic logical fallacy of equivocation |  | ||
| Re: When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace -- 13 | Top of thread | Post Reply | Forum |
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where you exploit the ambiguity of language by changing the meaning of a word in the course of your argument. Which brings us to a second logical fallacy which is appeal to irrelevant authority, since clearly Rawat is no authority on peace in the political sense. Of course many of us doubt his credentials in the other definition of peace as well. I guess he might be an authority in high-end stereo systems, expensive cars and how to manipulate people through logical fallacies though. I heard about that book by Steven Pinker. I heard it from a talk by the famous designer Stefan Sagmeister, who created a kind of art exhibit called "The Happy Show." Pinker was part of his research for the show. In his talk he said the author, who is a Harvard professor, had done research and attempted to show that in every century for the last some thousands of years human society has become more peaceful on average. I think this was measured by the percent of people who died violently. I haven't read the book though and have to wonder how you could gather such statistics. It would be amazing if true. Shows that we do have hope. Here is a link to a TEDTalk by Sagmeister about happiness. Not sure if he talks about Pinker though. I haven't actually listened to it  . But I have heard him speak many times and he is worth listening to. |
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