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Just because is ad hominem, doesn't mean it's a fallacy. Sometimes a person's reputation is so bad you don't need to give any benefit of the doubt for his/her o
by xux 10y ago
Just because is ad hominem, doesn't mean it's a fallacy. Sometimes a person's reputation is so bad you don't need to give any benefit of the doubt for his/her opinions.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoWhether or not you turn out to be correct has no bearing on whether your reasoning was fallacious.
- lmm 10y agoMost so-called fallacies are empirically effective (though not valid proofs in classical logic). Public statements from kooks really are false at a much higher rate than public statements from non-kooks.