RE: What is with refusing to admit slavery is wrong?
August 16, 2015 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2015 at 11:53 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 16, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Drich Wrote: What is the “Argument from Final Consequences?”
The “Argument from Final Consequences” fallacy can effectively be stated as: “Something exists, therefore [this] caused it.” In other words, it confuses cause and effect, starting with an effect and then assuming a cause.
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Wrong. But it's nice to see, that you're trying.
Quote:Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequences"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis (typically a belief) to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences
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