Comment author: redacted 05 July 2014 04:30:18PM 1 point [-]

I’m looking for information about rationalist houses, but the wiki page on the subject is sparse.

The most salient questions for me are:

  • What is their geographical distribution? I know there are plenty in the Bay Area, and I think I have heard that there is only one in NYC.
  • How frequently are there openings?
Comment author: MooreQuestions 20 May 2013 08:38:48AM 0 points [-]

(Five years on, but whatever)

I don't think the inference is necessary, really; it's fairly explicit that the scenario in which the comment is relevant is one in which the Alien Monster selected the Damsel for some lovin'. A competent writer, given only that cover art as the basis for their film, could get around that. The fact that the story is so frequently told incompetently is what makes it an unfortunately apt example for a much subtler and more insidious fallacy.

As a more contraversial, if slightly less ovious example, is the Christian condemning an Athiest to Hell. Their universe does not include a scenario in which there is any other result in store for someone who disbelieves, even without any objective basis for their claim. Besides Dante Aliegeri, but results have to be independently verifiable, after all.

Comment author: redacted 05 June 2013 07:15:04PM 1 point [-]

Your example does not seem to depict a mind projection fallacy. You might contend that the Christian doesn't have a basis for his assertion, but he doesn't seem to be confusing the map with the territory.