(August 16, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(August 16, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Drich Wrote: What is the “Argument from Final Consequences?”
The “Argument from Final Consequences” fallacy can effectively be stated as: “Something exists, therefore [this] caused it.” In other words, it confuses cause and effect, starting with an effect and then assuming a cause.
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Wrong. But it's nice to see, that you're trying.
Quote:Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequences"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis (typically a belief) to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences
I'm Homeless Nutter and I've been your Google today.
oh, I guess I forgot my citation:
(My response was cut and pasted from here)
https://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2009/1...sequences/
Either way your identification of a fallacy in my work is still wrong. I gave no such argument that concludes a hypothesis. I stated a fact. We all currently benefit from modern day slavery. If we say all slavery is wrong we are in trouble. Meaning we are hypocrits. By 'we all' I am acourse referring to the people who say all slavery is wrong.
Too bad my google for the day was so focused on the an accurate definition that it totally misidentified it's pratical application. Thankfully the reall google is not so blind sided... Although it did link me to a bad definition.
