Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by dabbernaught420 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:16PM
(#23709604)
A common fallacy I see, though I don't know if there's a name for it, is assuming that just because what someone is doing can be described by the name of a fallacy that what the person is doing is fallacious.
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by travisjungroth on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:40PM
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> Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy.
Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by dabbernaught420 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:45PM
(#23709776)
I'm talking about situations where no fallacy has actually occurred, not situations where a fallacy has occurred but a correct conclusion has been arrived at anyway.
Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by kd5bjo on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:02AM
(#23710985)
That’d be a form of equivocation: the accuser is using an incorrect definition of the fallacy, instead of the true one.
Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by travisjungroth on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:08AM
(#23714039)
I see what you mean. Just because you’re saying a person has a bad history doesn’t mean your committing an “ad hominem”. That seems different.
Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by the_cramer on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:22AM
(#23710534)
So what does any fallacy tell me then? Especially the fallacy fallacy? If it does invalidate the invalidation of fallacies it is in itself untrue...bz...recursion error..bz stack overflow
Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ...
by dimitrios1 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:42PM
(#23709752)
It's unironically called the fallacy fallacy.