(August 9, 2013 at 1:25 pm)ITChick Wrote:They're both fallacies that occur in a different order. One affirms the antecedent the other affirms the consequent. At any rate, the goal is to start with a conclusion and then find premises to support it. It's also called ignoring alternatives.(August 9, 2013 at 1:21 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Cheese wheels are round and yellow.
The moon is round and yellow.
The moon is made of cheese.
There needs to be a modicum of reason behind the use of logic.
Sparty, if I remember my logic course correctly, the answer to that one is that there is insufficient information to reach the third statement.
A correct one would be:
Everything that is round and yellow is cheese.
The moon is round and yellow.
The moon is made of cheese.
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