RE: Why can't Trump supporters admit there is something wrong with him
June 20, 2017 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2017 at 3:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-or you're as wrong as you always have been, ad naus. 
You think that you're attempting a reductio ad absurdum for the same reason that you thought the association fallacy was being employed. Both more fruedian slip than sharp critical thought. You must insist that the comparisons are -absurd-... in order to avoid -association-. Unfortunately, neither of those uses are a valid use of either the inference or the foul call. Most probably understand how strongly you feel about it, but we wouldn't have need of these rules if bad arguments weren't so naturally compelling to human beings - case in point...nazis.
This how a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous, lol.
You think that you're attempting a reductio ad absurdum for the same reason that you thought the association fallacy was being employed. Both more fruedian slip than sharp critical thought. You must insist that the comparisons are -absurd-... in order to avoid -association-. Unfortunately, neither of those uses are a valid use of either the inference or the foul call. Most probably understand how strongly you feel about it, but we wouldn't have need of these rules if bad arguments weren't so naturally compelling to human beings - case in point...nazis.
This how a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous, lol.
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