(January 14, 2019 at 1:35 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(January 13, 2019 at 9:35 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Well if you agreed that's what it is, and it's defined by such, then obviously it's a logical fallacy. Or do you get a special exception to using logical fallacies, so that you can say they don't count?
Ummm, no. Where did you come up with that?
Anyway, he already acknowledged it, but apparently believes it deserves some sort of exception.
It's a bald assertion without support, and thus a fallacy.
Says you. He acknowledged it even. Just claimed he was justified in applying it because he felt it was true.
Fallacies don't mean the original idea was necessarily right or wrong. It just suggests the newly presented idea doesn't support the matter (yay or nay) already being discussed.
For example, you call someone a "moron." They may or may not be a moron, but that doesn't mean that within their moronity they didn't make a non-moronic statement.
