{"id":3324,"date":"2011-12-31T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2012-02-21T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:43:24","slug":"the-eager-beaver-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"The Eager Beaver Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The college freshman meme has morphed into the exact analogy I use for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticsfieldguide.net\/2008\/09\/eager-beaver-fallacy.html\">eager-beaver fallacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/t.qkme.me\/35l940.jpg\" title=\"Eager Beaver Fallacy\" width=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#39;t be as funny, but something like: Takes Critical Thinking; Every Argument a Fallacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2011\/12\/Eagerbeaver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3427\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2011\/12\/Eagerbeaver.jpg\" title=\"Eagerbeaver\" width=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This needs tweaking.&nbsp; Also, my variation on the &quot;eager beaver&quot;&nbsp;differs from Theo Clark&#39;s somewhat.&nbsp; His applies to the mistaken assignment of&nbsp;fallacies in particular instances; my version&nbsp;is slightly more meta:&nbsp;the&nbsp;vice&nbsp;of too many&nbsp;Philosophy 101 students whereby every bad argument is fallacious and every instance of&nbsp;an argument scheme is fallacious.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This, by the way, is the first fallacy I mention when teaching fallacies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college freshman meme has morphed into the exact analogy I use for the eager-beaver fallacy: It wouldn&#39;t be as funny, but something like: Takes Critical Thinking; Every Argument a Fallacy. This needs tweaking.&nbsp; Also, my variation on the &quot;eager beaver&quot;&nbsp;differs from Theo Clark&#39;s somewhat.&nbsp; His applies to the mistaken assignment of&nbsp;fallacies in particular instances; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Eager Beaver Fallacy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1272,1270,1271],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-eager-beaver-fallacy","tag-skeptics-field-guide","tag-theo-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}