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AF Hall of Fallacies
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AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 7:57 pm
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Ooh! I think this is brilliant! Can't wait to see how the thread develops Big Grin
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 8:28 pm
This thread is going to be insane, but I love the idea Rayaan. Worship
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm
(May 22, 2013 at 7:57 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Hopefully this thread will include more than just ad hominems and straw mans. Tongue

That's part of the fun, isn't it? To see just how many fallacies we slip into the thread proper!

So when did you stop beating your wife, Ray? *raises eyebrow*
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 9:42 pm
(May 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm)Tonus Wrote: That's part of the fun, isn't it? To see just how many fallacies we slip into the thread proper!

That's a part of the fun indeed, certainly, but not if like 90 percent of this thread is filled with the same two or three fallacies over and over again. Tongue

Don't let it stop you, though.

(May 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm)Tonus Wrote: So when did you stop beating your wife, Ray? *raises eyebrow*

Straw man.
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 10:14 pm
(May 22, 2013 at 9:42 pm)Rayaan Wrote:
(May 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm)Tonus Wrote: So when did you stop beating your wife, Ray? *raises eyebrow*

Straw man.

Loaded question fallacy as well
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 11:32 pm (This post was last modified: May 22, 2013 at 11:32 pm by Darth.)
Nemo me impune lacessit.
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 22, 2013 at 11:53 pm
(May 22, 2013 at 11:32 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: Here's a free pdf book which explains 42 fallacies, written by a professor of philosophy so you know it's excellent and correct.

Argument from authority.
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 23, 2013 at 2:34 am (This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 2:35 am by Violet.)
(May 22, 2013 at 9:42 pm)Rayaan Wrote:
(May 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm)Tonus Wrote: So when did you stop beating your wife, Ray? *raises eyebrow*

Straw man.

I think that I need to send you an email now 0.o

A very angrily worded email.
(May 22, 2013 at 10:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(May 22, 2013 at 9:42 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Straw man.

Loaded question fallacy as well

But but... angrily... worded... email.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 23, 2013 at 2:22 pm (This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 2:23 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
(May 22, 2013 at 11:53 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Argument from authority.

Dang! You beat me to it! Tongue Although an argument from authority is not always fallacious, depending on the credentials of the authorty.
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