by Eric Martin
[UPDATE: I see that Gary already posted this here diagram below. Apologies for the oversight on my part.]
The magic of venn diagrams:
As created by Mark Shea. The accompanying post is worth a read too.
(via Steve Hynd on Twitter)
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Um, Eric? Any deja vu? :-)
Also, the chart was orignally created by Jonathan Cunningham here.
Posted by: Gary Farber | September 16, 2010 at 06:07 PM
Um, oh yeah. I was just, er, re-promoting it. That's it. Or something.
I need to quit one of my day jobs...
Posted by: Eric Martin | September 16, 2010 at 06:12 PM
Give up the baby. Have you no sense of priorities?
But, you know, now that you have grieviously offended me by this horrific act of obviously malicious plagiarism, I think you had better do something pretty special for me to make up for it.
It's time for me to finally use that Ultimate Leverage blackmail material I have on you.
I'll be sending you my terms by email. We'll soon see publically if you've met my demands, which are of the most demanding sort of demanding demands.
Posted by: Gary Farber | September 16, 2010 at 06:25 PM
Looking more closely, I see that this chart is slightly modified from the one I posted and linked to, which lacked the Qu'an-burners.
So you, in fact, added value with that updated point!
Posted by: Gary Farber | September 16, 2010 at 07:21 PM
And it is still wrong. Not that I pointed it out before, but it wasn't the primary point of Gary's post. Those little dots should be at the boundaries, not completely embedded in the respective groups.
Surely there may be some American or non Muslim Al Qaeda and some non American Qu'ran burners.
Posted by: Jay S | September 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Posted by: ral | September 16, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Ack. Italics, OFF!
Posted by: ral | September 16, 2010 at 11:32 PM
(help!)
Posted by: ral | September 16, 2010 at 11:35 PM
I only just learned (at the age of 40) that Lobachevsky was the independent inventor of hyberbolic non-Euclidean geometry, and not a famous mathematical plagiarist. Lehrer should be ashamed!
Posted by: Charles S | September 17, 2010 at 01:19 AM
I see only one problem with this diagram: the decision to persecute Muslims doesn't really have a lot to do with them. It has to do with you. I should really say us, because as a Canadian I share the same enlightenment heritage, the same ideal of freedom under law, that you do.
If your compatriots, or mine, decide to persecute Muslims, burn Mosques or even prevent Muslims from building them, then that will happen not because of Muslims but because we will have abandoned our shared enlightenment heritage, the belief that the free contention of ideals, ideals, faiths and vision gives us the best possible way to determine, and live, the truth.
Posted by: John Spragge | September 18, 2010 at 12:54 AM