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he specifically mentioned one thing and you drew your conclusion about the others. i could say the sky is blue. that's one conclusion. you're saying in additio
by didntknowya 5y ago
he specifically mentioned one thing and you drew your conclusion about the others.
i could say the sky is blue. that's one conclusion. you're saying in addition to that statement you can conclude that everything else is not blue. which is ridiculous because the ocean is blue too. the whole "the opposite is true" logic is a fallacy.
- mrcrumb1 5y agoI don't see how it's a fallacy in this case; this is definitional in the construction of meritocratic admissions: the people admitted have more merit than the ones that are not. OP phrased it as a matter of effort, and I was just making explicit what he left implicit.