For everyone on this message board!
Which is your favorite logical fallacy?
Got to get one of these to go with my "Who is John Galt?" poster...
Got to get one of these to go with my "Who is John Galt?" poster...
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"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." Ayn Rand
were wrong. like "how long have you been beating
your wife", no answer is presented which is good.
storage of spent nuclear fuel rods might be an
example -- when they really should be chemically
recycled into usable fuel for a new type of reactor. -- j
of spent reactor rods, yearning to breathe free --
and we will put them to work in our reactor! -- j
p.s. I saw lots of the parts for the Clinch River
breeder reactor, and damn near cried when
they were sold for scrap.
and tell TVA to go fly a kite! -- j
Argumentum ab auctoritate ("It's true because the best professors of economics say so!")
And its close cousins:
Argumentum a gradis (literally, "from one's grades". The form of this is: "How dare you criticize a person of my talents? Look at my grades, and look at your grades, and let's see who's qualified!")
Argumentum a populo (argumentum a numeris, argumentum a multitudine): "You're in the minority. The majority can't be wrong." As if truth were subject to a vote.
As in most serious: Misericordium - Appeal to Pity, because it is such a part of Altruism.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
I was going to leave it un-translated, but that's not playing fair.
"Following this, therefore because of this."
When you say 'favorite"...???
But I would say: Argument...
from ignorance
from silence
to moderation
People who take Government handouts are Moochers.
Ayn Rand accepted Social Security and Medicare.
Ayn Rand is a Moocher.
I hear this from Rand haters from time to time.
Ayn Rand accepted Social Security and Medicare.
Ayn Rand is a Moocher."
The logic is right, but premise that people who take gov't handouts are Moochers is not correct. Moochers are people who advocate for handouts. Honest people who pay taxes as required by law and take advantage of gov't benefits they're legally entitled to are not Moochers, IMHO. The Moocher part is aiming for freeloading as a lifestyle or promoting other people doing it.
Thank you!
that was the logical fallacy I was trying to remember before.
A perfect example of fallacies created by omitting operational data.
Only solid objects may strike me.
Lightning in not sold.
Therefore, I cannot be struck by lightning.