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Posted by $ blarman 11 years, 7 months ago to Pics
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Which is your favorite logical fallacy?

Got to get one of these to go with my "Who is John Galt?" poster...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 11 years, 7 months ago
    My favorite one is "middle ground." IMO, there is no nobility in "reaching across the aisle" when it results in surrenderihng freedoms or wrecking the economy (that includes ditching jobs for the "climate change" we've always had). And try to seek "middle ground" with a Muslim suicide bomber who will kill you for not converting from Christianity or for being born a Jew.
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    • Posted by dooley 11 years, 7 months ago
      My favorite too as well as " we need to have compromises ". Tell me where is there a compromise between a Atheist and a Christian. One says leave me alone, and the other must try to convert you.
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  • Posted by robgambrill 11 years, 7 months ago
    Ad misericordiam: This argument must be valid because there is suffering. As in "You must give up some of your property because that person has none of his own".
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    • Posted by $ 11 years, 7 months ago
      One of the most egregious justifications for altruism (ie government welfare) there is. It is a combination of appeal to emotion and "no true Scotsman".
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  • Posted by Temlakos 11 years, 7 months ago
    My favorite logical fallacy?

    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.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 7 months ago
    There were some screwy Roman philosophers. One of their favorites:
    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."
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  • Posted by Abaco 11 years, 7 months ago
    I absolutely love that poster. I deal with that stuff daily. Problem is...almost no average American would have any clue what any of it meant. Not one f'ing clue.
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  • Posted by Ranter 11 years, 7 months ago
    This doesn't really go along with a John Galt theme, but one statement that is a logical fallacy is: "This statement is false."
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