About me

My name is Abel Covarrubias and my pen name is Hevel Cava. I am a Linguistic Scientist working on in the Information Technology field as well as in Education and in Humanities.

Besides of being a linguistic scientist, I'm also a biblical scholar, an artist, a poet, a philosopher, an economist, a sociologist, a theologian, a professional photographer, a foreign trade broker, a storyteller and an author. Just a man enjoying of the invisible meaning of the visible structures which were made by this awesome universe. As a thinker provides thought-provoking commentary and as an artist loves beauty to the core. Mexican national by birth though Cosmopolitan citizen by vocation and of heart.

Some of my passions are books, computers, technologies, economics, finance, law, philosophy, theology, math, trade, globalization, culture, folklore, art, science, writing, poetry, linguistics, cosmology, astronomy, history, physics, drawing, travel, and so forth and so on.

Here there are some important ideas and insights that help us to avoid deception in the art of reasoning as well as in everyday life matters. The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:

Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts.

Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.

Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no "authorities").

Spin more than one hypothesis - don't simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.

Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.

Quantify, wherever possible.

If there is a chain of argument every link in the chain must work.

Occam's razor - if there are two hypotheses that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.

Ask whether the hypothesis can, at least in principle, be falsified (shown to be false by some unambiguous test). In other words, it is testable? Can others duplicate the experiment and get the same result?

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