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Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa... by ultramundane8 on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @03:40PM (#4666068)
I feel like the distinction between formal and informal fallacies negates the assertion that "tu quoque" would be in an incorrect context here.

I may definitely be wrong but that's my current understanding.

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Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa... by rayiner on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @04:49PM (#4666353)
The formal fallacies are errors in deductive reasoning. The informal fallacies are errors in inductive (statistical) reasoning. Bezos's argument is neither.
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