RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
March 29, 2013 at 7:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2013 at 7:43 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 29, 2013 at 11:38 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: The conclusion may not be wrong despite use of a fallacy, but if the reasoning at hand that points to said conclusion depends on a fallacy, then that specific argument is logically unsound and does not prove the conclusion or methodology to reach it.
As many ridiculous claims that lead to specific conclusions can be made, it is incumbant on the one making the claims to demonstrate a logically sound argument even in event of the conclusion being self evident.
Lack of belief in a claim is not the same as active negative belief against a specific claim-conclusion pairing, which the latter is an assertion that either the premise of the claim is false, the claim is illogical, the conclusion is not logically linked (ie invalid) or a combination of members of the aforementioned set.
However, even in case of defined negative belief in a claim, one can only judge an entire class of claim-conclusion pairings if they share a common basis considered logically unsound.
So you are seriously arguing that the argument from authority is, categorically, a fallacy?
http://www.google.com - Type in "argument from authority fallacy"