@ Ganimede
I presume you were about 6. That was an excellent response for a child up to about the age of 12,when we usually begin to master abstract thought.
To dismiss a proposition simply because I think it's silly/absurd/disgusting is a logical fallacy,called "argument from incredulity" or"argument from lack of imagination" a form of argument from ignorance.The rational response is to demand evidence.
PS: Is English your second language? If so,that excuses the spelling .
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_fr...magination
I presume you were about 6. That was an excellent response for a child up to about the age of 12,when we usually begin to master abstract thought.
To dismiss a proposition simply because I think it's silly/absurd/disgusting is a logical fallacy,called "argument from incredulity" or"argument from lack of imagination" a form of argument from ignorance.The rational response is to demand evidence.
PS: Is English your second language? If so,that excuses the spelling .
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Quote:Argument from incredulity / Lack of imagination
Arguments from incredulity take the form:
P is too incredible (or I cannot imagine how P could possibly be true); therefore P must be false.
It is obvious that P (or I cannot imagine how P could possibly be false) therefore P must be true.
These arguments are similar to arguments from ignorance in that they too ignore and do not properly eliminate the possibility that something can be both incredible and still be true, or appear to be obvious and yet still be false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_fr...magination
