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Jason Mathias

Is this fallacy of composition and division in the same argument?

Here is an anti vaccine meme that I ran across today on FB. 

"Ive got a question. If I didn't get the first three jabs and go straight to the fought one, will that one work? Or do I need to take the first three jabs that don't work in order to make the fought one work? Laughing emoji three times!" 

 

asked on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 01:41:15 PM by Jason Mathias

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Mchasewalker writes:

The meme is so stupid in construction and premise it is clearly a parody of hillbilly reasoning.

posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 03:22:45 PM
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Jason Mathias writes:

[To Mchasewalker]

Yeah, its such a mess its hard to analyze whats even going on in there. 

*fourth one

[ login to reply ] posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 03:30:19 PM
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Jason Mathias writes:

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posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 07:42:21 PM

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Aside from some unsupported claims (e.g., the first 3 vaccinations "didn't work") it sounds very much like an old-timer I used to work with while I was much younger waaaaay back in the last millennium.  When we finished a task (like loading or unloading a pile of wood, or moving bails of hay, or ...), he would sigh and say, "I sure wish we had found this last stick or bail when we started.  If we had taken this one off first, we would have been done a long time ago."

The claim in Jason's post works better (but not necessarily all that well) as a bit of comedy than it does as a logical argument about vaccinations.

answered on Tuesday, Dec 21, 2021 09:55:00 AM by Arlo

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TrappedPrior (RotE)
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There's no argument, it's just a misinformed meme. The previous jabs  did  work (in that they reduced rates of transmission and serious illness).

answered on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 02:38:25 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE)

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Bo Bennett, PhD writes:

A good heuristic… a meme’s lack of truthfulness is strongly correlated with the number of grammatical errors. 

posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 03:11:12 PM
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Jason Mathias writes:

So then a false premise, making the argument invalid. 

What if the premise was true in this case, and it was constructed into the form of an argument would it be a logical fallacy? A black and white fallacy, or perhaps a fallacy of composition? 

posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 03:33:22 PM