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Whimsicott

What is this fallacy?

Person 1 : wheat isn't bread because it has to go through a process in order for it to be called bread

Person 2 🤓:  "Wheat is bread because bread comes from wheat" 

asked on Friday, Aug 26, 2022 01:21:38 PM by Whimsicott

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Bo Bennett, PhD writes:

See my reply to your last question. Same issue. 

posted on Friday, Aug 26, 2022 02:16:06 PM
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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:

Yeah, I'd hesitate to even call fallacy because surely, no one is simple-minded enough to fall for this.

"P is part of Q, therefore P = Q" - really?

OP - perhaps person 2 is trolling?

posted on Friday, Aug 26, 2022 04:14:28 PM

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