The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69843 Message #1194387
Posted By: beardedbruce
26-May-04 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: It has been over 24 hrs. and.....
Subject: RE: BS: It has been over 24 hrs. and.....
SRS:
"Tia made no claims of any sort. You're putting your garbled words in her mouth. She posted a lucid description of how rhetoric works and the fallacy of your argument. "
She said "BB's item 4 is an example of the Post Hoc Fallacy "
I quoted the definition of same. IF she claims my statement as being that fallacy, then the PROOF ststed in HER link applies:
"Proof: Show that the correlation is coincidental by showing that: (i) the effect would have occurred even if the cause did not occur, or (ii) that the effect was caused by something other than the suggested cause."
THUS, my statement:
"So, GUEST Tia, you claim that (i)the US would have withdrawn even without the anti-war protests? seems like they all wasted a lot of time and energy, then. Or is it (ii) Th US withdrew because of some other reason than the anti-war protest? Again, you are stating that the entire anti-war effort was pointless, and had no effect on what happened."
I fail to see where I have made a logical error.Or is there no requirement for her to "prove" what she believes, since you agree with it?