Datman2020

It is difficult for me to ascertain when the person I am communicating is using a logical fallacy to trick me into believing him or doubting my judgement, even when I realise it hours after the argument.

I have seen countless arguments in Reddit threads and I couldn't figure out who was in the right or wrong unless I looked at the upvote counts. Even if the person is uttering a blatant lie, they somehow make it sound in a way that is completely believable to me. If it weren't for those people that could exactly point out the irrationality behind these arguments, my mind would have been lobotomised long ago.

I do want to learn these critical thinking skills but I don't know where to begin from. I could have all these tips and strategies memorised in theory, but they would be essentially useless if I am not able to think properly or remember them at the heat of the moment.

There could be many situations I could be unprepared for, like when the other person brings up a fact or statistic to support their claim and I have no way to verify it at the moment, or when someone I know personally to be wise or well-informed bring up about such fallacies, perhaps about a topic they are not well-versed with or misinformed of by some other unreliable source, and I don't know whether to believe them or myself.

Could someone help me in this? I find this skill of distinguishing fallacies from facts to be an extremely important thing to have in this age of misinformation and would really wish to learn it well if possible. Maybe I could take inspiration from how you came about learning these critical thinking skills by your own.

Edit: I do not blindly trust the upvote count in a comment thread to determine who is right or wrong. It just helps me inform that the original opinion is not inherently acceptable by everyone. It is up to me decide who is actually correct or not, which I can do at my leisure unlike in a live conversation with someone where I don't get the time to think rationally about what the other person is saying.

Share any question you've been asked which would make any other person feel awkward from answering it and an answer to responsibly deal with it without compromising yourself.

Explain any one particular complex topic using an analogy you found interesting or easily understandable.

Why is it that I am not able to read a book without moving my eyes if the entirety of the page is within my field of view? Why do I have to center my eyes on an object to observe it fully? And why is it that I am still able to view changes in surroundings in the edges of my field of vision despite there being supposedly no way to focus on them from that angle?

Is it due to our brain's capacity to absorb a finite amount of visual information at a given moment or is it a physical flaw in the structure of our eyes?

It is not the matter of what if you are found. It's the matter of when.

Hello everyone. I have lately been in a good mood and wish to spend some money on a game. By that mean, I mean all of it. I want to empty my entire savings on a game, and not just any game.

I am looking specifically for a game which is a complete and utter dumpster. Horrible controls, ugly graphics, incomplete assets and bugs on every aspect of the gameplay, all within a bundle whose size occupies more than half of my PC's storage. And it has to be expensive. I am looking for a game with the base price no less than 70$, with microtransactions of every kind available at this time, whether it be in the form of cosmetics, virtual currency, battle passes, subscriptions, DLCs or any worthless virtual in-game item. I'll be delightful to pay for them all!

Please don't recommend me one of those 'indie' games. I truly despise their polished and complete nature, and the love and care that went into them by those wretched developers with a 'soul', going their way to bring something 'new' and 'fresh' to the market. I would rather pay my hard-earned money to the more-deserving big corporations who have no sympathy for their playerbase and push out the same trash over and over again.

I would kindly ask anyone who knows of any such game to please let me know as I have my entire savings account to burn, exactly how the general game companies think people do. Extra points for those which I can pre-order.

Some people suggest the idea of a multiverse with each universe having a unique set of laws of physics governing it, but not many delve deeper into this. I was wondering if it was even possible to imagine a universe that is different to ours in this regard.

The universe could share some of the laws from our universe yet still be different enough that it is not a matter of just tweaking a few digits of the gravitational constant or the speed of light. Also the universe with those set of laws should be able to sustain itself through the same period as our universe has been so far, meaning it shouldn't implode or instantaneously cease to exist the moment it is born.

Is it even possible to imagine this? If not, is this due to us having become so accustomed to the logic of our universe that we cannot come up with any such idea that does not exist here, or is it just that our universe happens to be the only possible one to exist, at least while maintaining the harmony between each law of physics and avoiding any paradoxes to occur?