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LinearAq now:That on this non-static Earth, if you observe something in one place it applies to all other places despite differing conditions. Since one 5-year-old has a disease that ages him quickly, we have no chance of determining the age of anyone else on Earth. Remember, we must let anomalous instances rule our understanding of the commonplace.
So Obfuscation 101 is a class on false analogy?
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LinearAq then:
An analogy:

You are trying to determine a person's age. That person has white hair that is quite sparse on the top. There are deep deep wrinkles on his forehead and around his eyes. His knuckles are swollen and misshapen. He even has wrinkles on his knees. His posture is very stooped and he uses a walker to slowly get around. When he talks to you, he tells stories about being a kid in Chicago when Al Capone was running the city.

Would you guess that he was 6 months old? Of course not, because you see the indicators of age and understand how long it takes for those indicators to show up on a person.
Not hard to see whose idea it was to use people as an analogy for planets.

Perhaps you should study a while longer before trying to teach the class. Or maybe you should add a caveat: don't employ false analogy if your own attention span is too short to remember your purpose in the first place.

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