The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147140   Message #3411209
Posted By: John P
28-Sep-12 - 12:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Understanding 'Conservatives'
Subject: RE: BS: Understanding 'Conservatives'
Thanks, Lighter, those were fun. I got a good chuckle out of several of them. I wasn't fooled, though. The illogic blared forth from all of them. The hardest one for me was the Spurious Accuracy example. I hadn't thought of it as an actual fallacy; I just thought it was kind of dumb to get that exact with what were educated guesses at best. On reflection I can see where Spurious Accuracy can be used in a "logical" argument to create an unwarranted assumption of expertise, as well as being silly.