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Thread #127637   Message #3182555
Posted By: Don Firth
06-Jul-11 - 02:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Republicans (US)
Subject: RE: BS: The Republicans (US)
The fallacy of argumentum ad hominem can be phrased this way:   "What you say is wrong because you are a nincompoop," or variations thereof, such as "You are wrong because you have no education in that area."

The fallacy that Sawzaw is most frequently guilty of is the "argument from authority." "What I say is right because some 'expert' says so." Well, the "expert" himself can be wrong, even if he is an expert.

And maybe it's just me, but I generally don't regard Right-Wing blogs and web-sites (from which Sawzaw seems to have derived his education, and from which he chronically cuts and pastes) as "experts" on much of anything that relates to the REAL world.

You want to talk "logic" and "fallacies," Sawzaw? Bring it on!

Don Firth