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April 16

Death location of Douglas Jung

Hi, can someone point me to the death location of Douglas Jung please? Thanks! EpicPupper 03:33, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Vancouver Sun, he died "at home", which was apparently in Vancouver, BC. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:25, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! EpicPupper 16:20, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Baseball Bugs: Hi, sorry to bother you again, could you give me the issue date of the Sun that mentions this please? Thanks! EpicPupper 23:46, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I could look it up again, but maybe you could get a trial membership to Newspapers.com and then extract exactly what you need from it? But if they don't allow a free trial, let us know. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:54, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a name for the argument/fallacy..

Is there a name for the argument or fallacy where someone repeatedly reduces or increases a value trying to get them to break an original limit, like: Seller: "I'm not accepting anything less than £400,000 for this house" Buyer: "I bet you'd accept £399,990" Seller: "Well OK for the sake of £10 I'll take that" Buyer: "Well what about £399,980 - would you turn that down for £10?" .. and so on

That is not a fallacy. A fallacy is an error of logic, either a formal fallacy (where the format of the argument is faulty) or an informal fallacy (where there is some other sort of error). This is not a matter of logic, so it isn't an argument or a fallacy. This is a negotiation tactic. The tactic is superficially related to the Sorites paradox (the paradox of the heap; the "straw that breaks the camel's back", etc.) but that's the best I can find. And to re-iterate, this has nothing to do with reaching a conclusion from a premise based on the rules of logic; and because it is not that, it is not a fallacy or an argument. --Jayron 32 14:25, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]