Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

On 28 Apr 2024 17:29:06 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

Is GS a fallacy?  Certainly it seems to have been a fad, but also to still
be around in a less high-profile manner and accepted as providing some
useful insights.

Among the fallacies examined in Gardner's book is _chiropractic_. As
he notes, though, lots of chiropractors do useful things that help
patients, but when that discipline originated, it included notions
like curing, say, tuberculosis by addressing subluxations of the
vertebrae.

Similarly, while there may be useful insights in General Semantics,
its original form reached too far.

John Savard