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Re:Bulverism by heavenlyblue on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:50PM (#25540106)
Fallacies are your failure to apply scientific method. The fact that you are aware of them doesn’t change the fact that you don’t know how to use it.

It’s like a blind person learning this something isn’t red. They’ll continue guessing until they came up with the right colour.

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Re:Bulverism by dragonwriter on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:32PM (#25540612)
> Fallacies are your failure to apply scientific method

No, they are mostly failures to apply sound abstract logic.

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Re:Bulverism by taeric on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:30PM (#25540599)
While not wrong, this seems less than helpful. Not all of us have the equipment/context to replicate experiments.

Such that the existence of a fallacy does not equal the existence that something is false. That is itself a logical fallacy.

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Re:Bulverism by heavenlyblue on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:33PM (#25555161)
Logical fallacies are just glorified cargo cults
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