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It's still a fallacy, arguing the fact that fallacious argument can turn out to be true is a fallacy fallacy :)
by Aoyagi 12y ago
It's still a fallacy, arguing the fact that fallacious argument can turn out to be true is a fallacy fallacy :)
- TeMPOraL 12y agoWait what? Fallacy fallacy is arguing that "it's a fallacy, therefore it's wrong", AFAIR. (Or, as it usually works over the Internet, "it pattern-matches some random fallacy list I vaguely remember, so it's wrong!!111".)
- Aoyagi 12y agoNo I mean you said that "because it turned out to be true, the original argument wasn't a fallacy", which is kind of "reversed fallacy fallacy" I guess, but I don't think it matters which "direction" it goes for the name of the phenomena. I might be wrong, obviously. I'll ask around... The more I think about it the worse headache I get, so I'll leave it at that and hope for the best.
- Aoyagi 12y agoOK, it was answered right at the "source": http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html