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Agreed. Also, I think there is a more fundamental problem, which is that people don't know how to construct logical arguments. Discussing different types of fal
by benchaney 10y ago
Agreed. Also, I think there is a more fundamental problem, which is that people don't know how to construct logical arguments. Discussing different types of fallacies is more targeted at getting people to identify flawed arguments, which isn't really helping the underlying problem. The key realization is that every argument is a fallacy unless in explicitly contains a logically valid argument. It doesn't really matter who in an argument is the first to point out one of the categories of argument if both sides of the argument are devoid of logical reasoning.