(February 1, 2016 at 3:15 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: I think you've lost the debate. Appealing to imagination rather than reason - that's a new low.
I rest my case.
My ironometer just broke. Do you know the term we use when someone makes a statement such as "I can't imagine how they -x- therefore they can't -x-"? We call that an argument from incredulity, or a failure of imagination. Do you know the term we use when a person, conveniently in this case after making an argument from incredulity, offers two equally unjustified options as the only options? A false dichotomy.
You rest your case on an argument from incredulity followed up by a false dichotomy? Do you do well in debates?
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