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Is there a fallacy involved here?I recently got into a discussion with someone about defining veganism and they used a lot of formal logic to show my definition led to absurdities according to them. I had said my minimum definition would be ‘a position against commodifying an... |
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Is this person asking to substitute academic rigor with public opinion?From here : If "gender-affirming care" is so good, the activists and doctors who promote it—and profit from it—should defend their practices in the realm public opinion. In a democracy, everyone gets to weigh in on important issues, no... |
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What sort of fallacy is this?From here : So, the votes of 75 percent of Oklahoma’s citizens are invalid, because the “emerging awareness” doctrine declares that 5,000 years of human tradition constitute “an arbitrary, irrational exclusion.” &nb... |
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Guns Are Designed to Kill Bad People?In a video @ https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=149148723912527 someone suggests that Ben Shapiro is hypocritical in opposing abortion but not supporting gun control. Shapiro replies that abortion kills babies, but "Guns are designed... |
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What do I do hereIgnorant person im dealing with, very stupid, lives in there moms basement, and eats hot pockets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner I explain something using logical thinking and everything, and when I give analogy of there logic and they refuse to a... |
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What do I do?Someone trolls me, I get annoyed and angry They say: "chill dude I was just trolling" What do I do, the intent of trolling is to get someone annoyed and they say it's wrong to get annoyed at a troll |
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What sort of fallacy, if any, does this argument follow?What are your thoughts about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/xicw8a/raskphilosophy_open_discussion_thread_september/ipaj5mn/ This level of smug pseudo-intellectual idiocy requires a fisking. In order to reduce repetitiveness,... |
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How can I respond to someone who says analogy is bad when it's notMy analogy to there ignorant argument was They said a pencil was the same as wood because pencils come from wood And I said that's like saying, bread is the same as wheat because bread comes from wheat They just say it's bad analogy and there's o... |
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What is this fallacy that person 2 madePerson 1: heroin is highly addictive therefore its bad for people Person 2: heroin isn't addictive because addiction was around before heroin |
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Does Freuds Theories depend on unprovable claims?The idea of dream interpretation seems impossible to prove and can “explain everything”. You have repeating Dreams about War? You’re life must be hell on earth! Oooo your life is very good but you still have War dreams? Well that&r... |
