(May 12, 2012 at 10:18 pm)LiberalHearted Wrote: The fallacist’s fallacy involves rejecting an idea as false simply because the argument offered for it is fallacious. Having examined the case for a particular point of view, and found it wanting, it can be tempting to conclude that the point of view is false. This, however, would be to go beyond the evidence.
This is true. A fallacious argument is not sufficient to conclude anything about the truth value of the conclusion.
However, it is reasonable to say that the conclusion does not follow from the premises in a fallacious argument, and that the argument is unconvincing and is no proof at all.
