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Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up?
(April 12, 2014 at 9:39 am)alpha male Wrote: I was asked to explain why I said that this thread is an example of confirmation bias. My response was perfectly valid. Sometimes I think there should be a name for the fallacy of improperly applying a fallacy. Maybe there is, but I've never heard it.

The Tu Quoque fallacy involves avoiding actually addressing an issue in favor of simply attempting to label the arguer a hypocrite. The fallacious point being that this does nothing to mitigate the Quoque-ers involvement in the same problem.

A confirmation bias, on the other hand, involves a tendency to favor information that confirms one's pre-existing beliefs to the exclusion of competing information. In order for this thread to be an example of confirmation bias, there would need to be a position asserted to be confirmed, and there simply isn't; the thread is asking for an opinion about what fallacies have been presented to the posters by theists that frustrate them the most. There's no possible way to construe that as a position that could even fall victim to a confirmation bias, unless you're saying that there's some form of evidence out there that these fallacies don't actually frustrate us when we hear them? Thinking

When pressed on your erroneous claim, you went with "you guys do it too!" which is the very definition of a Tu Quoque fallacy as it doesn't address the argument you were making, made worse by the fact that it was a baseless assertion at that.
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RE: Most frustrating Fallacies that Religious people bring up? - by Esquilax - April 12, 2014 at 9:51 am

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