RE: Does trying to live healthy make sense considering an imminent bird flu outbreak?
August 17, 2021 at 7:26 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2021 at 7:30 am by FlatAssembler.)
(August 16, 2021 at 8:03 pm)Jackalope Wrote:(August 16, 2021 at 2:43 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: I am not sure what you mean.
I believe she means you know fuck all.
She's right.
And "fuck all" means "a bunch of myth and lies", or?
(August 16, 2021 at 2:59 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(August 16, 2021 at 2:40 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: More like "applying basic common sense" than "babbling".
Quote:Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity or appeal to common sense, is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition must be false because it contradicts one's personal expectations or beliefs, or is difficult to imagine.
Arguments from incredulity can take the form:
Arguments from incredulity can sometimes arise from inappropriate emotional involvement, the conflation of fantasy and reality, a lack of understanding, or an instinctive 'gut' reaction, especially where time is scarce.[3] This form of reasoning is fallacious because one's inability to imagine how a statement can be true or false gives no information about whether the statement is true or false in reality.
- I cannot imagine how F could be true; therefore F must be false.
- I cannot imagine how F could be false; therefore F must be true.
Wikipedia || Argument from incredulity
Where exactly do you think that I used argument from incredulity? And why exactly is it fallacious? I mean, if something is difficult to imagine, it is certainly less likely to be true, even though it can be true. Saying "I cannot imagine how F could be true, therefore F must be false." is arguably fallacious, but saying it is unlikely to be true is not fallacious.