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I mean the great thing about fallacies is their content isn't important. It's their structure that makes them flawed in leading to the truth. The examples, as a
by andkon 10y ago
I mean the great thing about fallacies is their content isn't important. It's their structure that makes them flawed in leading to the truth. The examples, as a result, are something you can safely ignore, whether or not they're ones you agree with.
For what it's worth, learning to notice the underlying structure of an argument is probably a far more important philosophical skill than noticing that your interlocutor doesn't share your political viewpoints.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoWe humans tend to train ourselves to subject opposing arguments to rigorous analysis while letting arguments we like off the hook. Learning about fallacies using examples we like is particularly likely to encourage this habit.