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This master list is itself a fallacy, it takes a set of actual fallacies and open questions and maps them as fallacies.
by nathias 5y ago
This master list is itself a fallacy, it takes a set of actual fallacies and open questions and maps them as fallacies.
- 5tefan 5y agoAgree. It is a fallacy to assume full knowledge of all fallacies humanity did and still will invent to trick themselves to make opinion and fact interchangeable.
- Adefila 5y agoYes of course, this is right.
- Closi 5y agoAbsolutely agree - I would label some of them "arguments" rather than logical fallacies. For instance "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" isn't a logical fallacy, it's just an idiom/argument. Also some of the definitions of things that aren't logical fallacies themselves contain real logical fallacies. For instance the 'proof' of 'The Passive Voice' seems to include an a-priori argument ('Rape statistics are reported as number of rapes rather than number of rapists, thus this was intended to shift the focus from men to women and is a logical fallacy'). This ignores the fact that the number of rapists can't be known, while the number of reported rapes can be known.
- prepend 5y agoThis example is particularly odd and illogical as it doesn’t not that crime statistics are by crime, not by criminal. So it singles out “rape statistics” as if they have a particular characteristics. And of course misses what you brought up in that rapes are more knowable than rapists.