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That's an absolutely textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
by ceejayoz 1y ago
That's an absolutely textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
- ASalazarMX 1y agoIs this a false fallacy? If somethong can learn, it can be trained, and that's the dictionary definition of train: "to teach so as to make fit, qualified, or proficient".
- ceejayoz 1y agoThe fallacy is "if it can be trained, it is therefore logically a muscle". Ask your same dictionary to define muscle, and ask yourself if the immune system is a "band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract".
- ASalazarMX 1y agoExcept my statement was "If it can be trained, it _behaves like_ a muscle", meaning that muscles and the immune system can be trained. I don't see how it can be reasonably misinterpreted as "the immune system is literally a muscle", I'm not talking about unfeathered chickens here.