RE: Men's Rights Movement
December 21, 2017 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 4:16 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(December 21, 2017 at 2:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: No true Scotsman
I knew that was coming and I'm too tired of explaining what the fallacy actually is.
Most people who call it out don't even understand the fallacy and they're doing the equivalent of saying that "No true circles have five sides" is a fallacy.
I would bother to explain what the fallacy actually is (the misunderstanding of the fallacy seems infinitely more common than a correct understanding of the fallacy!!!) but I've done it so many times it's getting tiring.
(December 21, 2017 at 3:04 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(December 21, 2017 at 2:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: No true Scotsman
Fallacy fallacy.
No. Incorrectly calling out a fallacy is not the Fallacy Fallacy . . . you are just incorrectly calling out an incorrect calling out of a fallacy. That's what you're doing.
I'll explain the Fallacy Fallacy because it's an easy one to explain and I'm not super tired of explaining it (almost no one seems to understand the NTS fallacy because the common misunderstanding is so widespread that people just repeat that misunderstanding over and over without bothering to read up on it properly): The Fallacy Fallacy is when you say that the truth of someone's conclusion is necessarily false just because the way they got there was fallacious. That itself is a fallacy because someone could be right about the conclusion by accident. Their reason for believing in their conclusion is faulty but the conclusion that they believe in nevertheless represents something true in reality.
