ConformalInfinity

I have suffered poor mental health for multiple years and noticed a decline in my fluid intelligence. In particular, my verbal proficiency has decreased: I was able to quickly formulate complex, gramatically correct, semantically coherent sentences which referred exactly to the ideas in my mind, using relatively few, well chosen...

Circular arguments are often claimed not to be of explanatory value. I argue that this is true primarily as a result of the existence of inverted, 'parody arguments', which take the same circular form, but with every step inverted to yield the opposite conclusion of the opposite premises. Example: A...