Godwin's law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the widespread Reductio ad Hitlerum form.

Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches.

There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical ( by being adopted by Godwin himself ) than others.

This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.

There is a widely recognized corollary that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful.

Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations ( or one's opponent ) with Nazis.

While falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose their argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.

Godwin has stated that he introduced Godwin's law in 1990 as an experiment in memetics.

Godwin's law does not claim to articulate a fallacy ; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate hyperbolic comparisons.

* Godwin's law FAQ ( alternate link )

* Godwin's law at the Public Domain Jargon File

* " I Seem to be a Verb "; Mike Godwin's commentary on the 18th anniversary of Godwin's law

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Some humorous parodies of such laws include adages such as Murphy's law and its many variants, and Godwin's Law of Internet conversations.

Robert also discovered that some lands belonging to Canterbury had fallen into Godwin's hands, but his efforts to recover them through the shire courts were unsuccessful.

The medieval writer William of Poitiers gives the same reason, but also adds that Robert took with him as hostages Godwin's son Wulfnoth and grandson Hakon ( son of Sweyn ).

Godwin's The Man in the Moone was also published in 1638.

(" See also " Godwin's law.

A Becky Godwin Memorial Scholarship is also given to college students at Godwin's former church, Oakland Christian Church, in Chuckatuck Virginia.

Given Ealdred's known support of Godwin's family, John of Worcester is probably correct.

It is known that Godwin's father was called Wulfnoth, and in the view of Frank Barlow, the Godwin family's massive estates in Sussex are indisputable evidence that the Wulfnoth in question was the South Saxon thegn.

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It was followed by Turk and no Turk ( 1785 ), a musical comedy ; Inkle and Yarico ( 1787 ), an opera ; Ways and Means ( 1788 ); The Iron Chest ( 1796 ), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams ; The Poor Gentleman ( 1802 ); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside ( 1803 ), his most successful piece ; The Heir at Law ( 1808 ), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, " Dr Pangloss " ( borrowed of course from Voltaire's Candide ), and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French.

* Mike Godwin ( born 1956 ), American lawyer, created Godwin's Law of Internet discussions

An example of an engineered meme is Godwin's Law, a meme which propagates on mail-lists, and which its author professes to have initiated to reduce spam on those lists ; one version is " When someone posts a metaphor about Nazis the thread is no longer useful.

* Rich Rosen's Rules of Netnews Debating, a satirical post intended not so much as a set of guidelines to follow when posting, but rather as a statement ( like Godwin's Law ) about the irrational and often obnoxious behavior often observed in Usenet discussions ( which Rosen himself admittedly engaged in ).

His embrace of egoism is in stark contrast to Godwin's altruism.

The murder is thought to be the source of much of Edward's later hatred for the Earl and one of the primary reasons for Godwin's banishment in autumn 1051.

William may have visited Edward during Godwin's exile, and he is thought to have promised William the succession at this time, but historians disagree how seriously he meant the promise, and whether he later changed his mind.

During Godwin's exile, Robert is said to have been sent by the king on an errand to Duke William of Normandy.

" The closest English translation to the original is William Godwin's 1816 translation, reprinted by Penguin Classics.

This formed the basis of William Godwin's Lives of Edward and John Phillips ( 1815 ), with which is reprinted Edward Phillips's Life of John Milton.

The chronology of English expansion into Cornwall is unclear, but it had been absorbed into England by the reign of Edward the Confessor ( 1042 – 1066 ), when it apparently formed part of Godwin's and later Harold's earldom of Wessex.

It is evident that, despite his speculations on the future of machinery, Godwin's ideal society is based on the economics of handcrafts and cultivation.

A classic example of an SF robinsonade which has all the elements of the robinsonade proper is Tom Godwin's The Survivors.

It is likely at this point that Wulfnoth ( and Hakon, son of Svein Godwinson, Godwin's eldest son ) were spirited away by the fleeing archbishop, and taken to Normandy, where they were handed over to Duke William of Normandy.

William of Normandy, Harald III of Norway ( aided by Harold Godwin's estranged brother Tostig ) and Sweyn II of Denmark all asserted claims to the throne.

This aspect of Godwin's philosophy, minus the utilitarianism, was developed into a more extreme form later by Stirner.

Many of Godwin's views changed over time, as noted by Kropotkin.

Later Norman chroniclers suggest alternative explanations for Harold's journey: that he was seeking the release of members of his family who had been held hostage since Godwin's exile in 1051, or even that he had simply been travelling along the English coast on a hunting and fishing expedition and had been driven across the Channel by an unexpected storm.

This however set a precedent to be followed by a rival earl some years later, and then by Godwin's own son in 1066.

* Athena — A planet in Tom Godwin's Space Prison ( aka The Survivors ) and The Space Barbarians, claimed by the Gern Empire and colonized by Terran slave labor before being liberated by the Ragnarokans.

This was a small work on cryptography ; it may well have been influenced by Godwin's Nuncius inanimatus ( 1629 ).

Brown was influenced by these writers and in turn exerted an influence on them and their younger studiers, for example in Godwin's later novels, or in the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, who reread Brown as she wrote her novels Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) and The Last Man ( 1826 ).

All of the children were influenced by Godwin's radical anarchist philosophical beliefs.

Godwin's bid for governor in 1965 was endorsed by the local affiliates of both the NAACP and the AFL-CIO.

Godwin's views and works are very much fundamentalist and are not accepted by most mainstream Christians.