The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122500   Message #2687205
Posted By: Joe_F
25-Jul-09 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: There are no choirs
Subject: RE: There are no choirs
This fallacy is sometimes called Plato's Beard. (It has been known, according to Prof. Quine, to dull the edge of Occam's Razor.) If one hair on the chin does not make a beard, and one hair more or less cannot make the difference between a beard & no beard, then no-one has a beard.