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From: clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen)
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Subject: Re: How do Universities Sell Prestigious =?UTF-8?B?QmF1Ymxlcz8=?=
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:40:29 +0000
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>
>>>> LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
>>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
>>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
>>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
>>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
>>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
>>>>> thoughtlessly
>>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
>>>> monopoly'.
>>>>
>>>> (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)
>>>>
>>>> You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The cabal decides what they want you to think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who
>>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
>>> curved space for a second.
>> Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood
>> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel
>> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the
>> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as
>> a foolish fellow.
>
> Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will
> never intersect.
You did not understand. Even Paul recently acknowledged that space is
not a surface. Then, we should understand that space does not curve.
Claiming it does is an unmistakable example of the reification fallacy,
where an abstraction is confused with the physical. The derivation of
the doubling is a clear case of this, making it an invalid derivation.