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What is this? Name that fallacy
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RE: What is this? Name that fallacy
September 7, 2021 at 12:08 pm (This post was last modified: September 7, 2021 at 12:11 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 7, 2021 at 10:48 am)Angrboda Wrote: It's not a fallacy because it's not an argument.  I would refer that as a "Heads I win, tails you lose" type answer.  I don't know if there's a name for that.

There is, and it’s called ‘Morton’s Fork’, a version of a false dilemma. It’s when two different observations are made to lead to the same conclusion. In this case:

Observation 1: Person dies.

Observation 2: Person lives.

Conclusion: Goddidit.

Boru
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What is this? Name that fallacy

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What is this? Name that fallacy - by zwanzig - September 6, 2021 at 7:35 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Silver - September 6, 2021 at 7:46 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Fake Messiah - September 6, 2021 at 7:47 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Ferrocyanide - October 15, 2021 at 2:09 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by zwanzig - September 6, 2021 at 8:14 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Gwaithmir - September 6, 2021 at 9:00 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Ahriman - September 6, 2021 at 9:19 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Fake Messiah - September 6, 2021 at 10:56 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Fake Messiah - September 6, 2021 at 3:51 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by brewer - September 6, 2021 at 11:52 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Ranjr - September 6, 2021 at 2:05 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by no one - September 6, 2021 at 2:24 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by zwanzig - September 6, 2021 at 2:33 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Ahriman - September 6, 2021 at 2:43 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by brewer - September 6, 2021 at 4:22 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by no one - September 6, 2021 at 3:40 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Jehanne - September 6, 2021 at 4:04 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Ahriman - September 6, 2021 at 4:08 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Jehanne - September 6, 2021 at 4:15 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by zwanzig - September 6, 2021 at 4:36 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Mister Agenda - September 7, 2021 at 10:44 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Angrboda - September 7, 2021 at 10:48 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 7, 2021 at 12:08 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Simon Moon - September 10, 2021 at 4:51 pm
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by Ghetto Sheldon - October 5, 2021 at 3:32 am
RE: What is this? Name that fallacy - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 5, 2021 at 4:06 am

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