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an introduction to logic: 12/19/2016 19:27:01


Major General Smedley Butler
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an introduction to logic: 12/20/2016 02:15:20


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Just a for-fun post.

Maybe people aren't addressing what you said (for whatever reason may be), that doesn't always mean they're committing a fallacy. I don't know the whole story here, but you can't just dismiss every argument as a 'fallacy' because that alone is deflection in itself, and deflection is a fallacy. One example of this type of failed reasoning is called the 'fallacy fallacy'.

The fallacy fallacy is used to deflect against opposing arguments by dismissing them as fallacies. When you presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong, that is a fallacy fallacy and when both parties are dismissing each others arguments you simply waste time and get nowhere.

I deal with people who argue this way all the time, not saying you necessarily do, and not really targeting you specifically either but gosh it's annoying and worth pointing out. :P

You're certainly good at generating attention whether or not you're trolling, and that's respectable. ^_^
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