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The parent makes a solid point, and you're employing this logical fallacy, which is why I am down voting you.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
by lordbusiness 12y ago
The parent makes a solid point, and you're employing this logical fallacy, which is why I am down voting you.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
- heinrich5991 12y agoSay what's wrong, but don't call it "that fallacy". Those "appeals to fallacies" are really what destroys useful Internet discussions.
- gwern 12y agoRidicule is not what he's appealing to, rather, the basic evidential principle that absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
- csixty4 12y agohttps://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy