Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office

Re:Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Aust... by gameshot911 on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @06:41PM (#4690727)

Side discussion concerning the No True Scotsman fallacy. If 100/100 people agreed with "A", does the fallacy still apply? Can you say "just because everyone thinks 'X' doesn't make it fact"^?

^I know that people believing something doesn't define facts - in this case I'm wondering if the fallacy would still apply.

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Re:Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Aust... by StavrosK on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:14PM (#4690843)

Of course it would still apply. The difference here is that some people have a different (yet still immutable) definition for what a game is.

The fallacy is when you keep changing the definition to fit the data.

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Re:Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Aust... by Karunamon on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:47PM (#4691114)

Except that, at least in my case, no such change was made. I took the definition I used directly from a dictionary. It looks like in this case someone is trying really hard to shout down an argument as fallacy when no such error is being made.

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Re:Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Aust... by StavrosK on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @09:35PM (#4691236)

I know, that's what I was saying.

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