...the whole population of marbles. As the sample size of marbles increases the more likely it becomes that marbles of each color will be selected in proportion to their numbers in the whole population. Hi I admire your patience and friendliness towards the willfully ignorant. Your example shows,however, not only Hasty Generalization leads astray, sampling also leads to wrong conclusions if one has lost his marbles. regards, ed

...you have commited, (add echo) The Hasty Generalization! Since the premise assumes that... people and their political views. -------------------------------- Hasty Generalization This fallacy is committed ... and their political views. Since Hasty Generalization is committed when the ... one. People also commonly commit Hasty Generalizations because of laziness or ... enough. One final point: a Hasty Generalization, like any fallacy, might ...

...started may be with the nonsense extrapolation that 'no mass can reach c ' no ne thought that the photon can be an exception to that rule and the extrapolation until the photon was wrong and too hasty !! now once you realize the above prof anything starts to be smashingly SIMPLE !! but all the crackparroters are unhappy with simplicity!! it deprives them from their big mumle jumble they did 'impressively' for so long...

... kind of reasoning. Both valid and false analogies compare similar things; false analogies, however, use hasty generalizations as the grounds for comparison. Consider the following pair of statements. A war in...inductive leap it makes (we win wars because we fight them in January) is a hasty generalization. ################################################ Bad Analogy: claiming that two situations are highly similar, when they aren't. ...

... conected to) their scientific theories. You reason poorly. Here, you commit both errors of composition (because the subset displays characteristic x, the whole set displays such characteristic) and the error of the hasty generalization. Your reasoning abilities are poor. Without the ability to trust the product of your reasoning, you should be very careful not to come to any firm consclusions. And we have seen clearly that ...

...spaced walls or rocks. Couldn't help but notice that during the last (in-camp) fight a lot of the cannibals where just running to and fro, like they were getting their goodies together and beating a hasty retreat since their buddies were the losing fight. I liked it when Xena was facing the whole cannibal tribe and kept yelling to Gabrielle (to cut the vine). And yelling and yelling and yelling. And getting worried...

... the comfort zone of consensus thinking. A variety of motives for this may exist such as a desire to avoid being seen as foolish, or a desire to avoid embarrassing or angering other members of the group. Groupthink may cause groups to make hasty, irrational decisions, where individual doubts are set aside, for fear of upsetting the groupÂ’s balance. The term is frequently used pejoratively, with hindsight. <*snigger*> -- mad

... C" or S" to avoid breaking their code. Now 15 years hence, if I look around, I see virtually no instances of C" and virtually everyone using the state-smart S". But, in any case, there was nothing hasty about the approach we took to this issue, it was discussed and debated at length over a number of years. I had the strong impression that the state-smart S" in the Files wordset was a last-minute addition that did not ...

... to avoid breaking their code. Now 15 years hence, if I look around, I see virtually no instances of C" and virtually everyone using the state-smart S". But, in any case, there was nothing hasty about the approach we took to this issue, it was discussed and debated at length over a number of years. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH ...

Sorry, I was a bit hasty with the patch. This one should compile properly: diff -r ca5b26cbe43a src/9vx/osx/screen.c --- a/src/9vx/osx/screen.c Tue Jul 01 17:27:41 2008 -0400 +++ b/src/9vx/osx/screen.c Fri Jul 04 01:31:37 2008 +0900 @@ -513,7 +511,9 @@ }else{ HideWindow(osx.window); oldwindow = osx.window; - BeginFullScreen(&restore, 0, 0, 0, &osx.window, 0, 0); + GDHandle device; + GetWindowGreatestAreaDevice(osx.window, ...