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Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox

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Explore the circular reasoning fallacy, which occurs when the end of an argument comes back to the start without having proven itself. It s 1990. A prospective student has filed a complaint about Virginia Military institute s admissions policy that excludes women. The state argues that VMI s single sex education is an important governmental objective and that the exclusion of women from VMI is essential to that objective. Can you spot the problem with this argument? Elizabeth Cox explores the circular reasoning fallacy.
Date: 2022-06-07

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I am agnostic because I found most christian beliefs are only supported by circular reasoning. god is good because god is good. forget all those little Egyptian boys he murdered, he was totally justified in doing it because he is good. he HAD to do it to get the Egyptians to release the jews. I'm sorry! so now you are telling me your all powerful, all knowing, all loving god couldn't figure out a way to end the enslavement of the jews that didn't involve mass child murder!
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I'm down for the idea that a reason needs to be provided as to why a school should exclude women
But the conclusion of the video was literally just saying that the school has to include women without giving the reason as to why
It just said that the aim is clearly broad enough to include women.
I certainly agree with that conclusion, but it is most certainly begging the question why?

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Heliocentric model was used for calculation of eclipses etc by Indian astronomers in 500CE or something, much before Europeans. But Sadly Eurocentric school education in the world doesn't recognise this, even though almost all Indian and foreign origin historians studying Indian history know it
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What's the point of this video? The title mentions the college admissions fallacy but then proceeds to only explain circular reasoning. Is it trying to imply that college admissions aren't necessary? What exactly is the paradox? This just seems like a silly strawman.
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an easy way to disccover whether an argument is based on circular logic is to test its reversibility. for example: a baby is born because their mother gave birth > a mother gave birth because their baby was born.
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Colossal fail. The reasoning isn't that you should treat men and women differently because the law treats them differently. The reasoning was that you should do so because they are, in fact, different.
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He has been through so many fallacies. He can answer almost any question, he can figure out fallacies. But one question remains. HOW DOES HE KEEP FORGETTING HIS CLOTHES!
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As the demon of reason, he should have brought his own suit inside the court because he's the demon of reason, implying that he is demonically reasonable.
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I have many female friends who graduated VMI and made outstanding officers in the military and/or civilians in the workforce. Glad the rule was changed!
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