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Aug 16, 2019 at 16:33 comment added The_Sympathizer @Schiphol : The "that one" is the pattern you described as "ignoring [the conclusion about causation] on the grounds that post hoc ... reasonings are fallacious". Doing such - dismissing a conclusion as wrong because it was argued for with a fallacious argument, is itself a named fallacy, ad logicam.
Aug 16, 2019 at 15:33 comment added Schiphol Hi, @The_Sympathizer, just for clarity: "there's a name for that one too". Is my answer the "that" in that sentence? Thanks for your comment :)
Aug 16, 2019 at 13:02 comment added The_Sympathizer " Ignoring it on the grounds that post hoc, propter hoc reasonings are fallacious would be very silly." FWIW, there's a name for that one too: it's called "ad logicam fallacy" - that because someone argued for a conclusion using a "fallacy", the conclusion therefore is false. Pointing out a fallacy, even if correct, does not refute the conclusion, it simply shows that a given argument fails to support it.
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Sep 6, 2014 at 1:48 comment added Dennis +1 For the aside on the informal fallacies not showing that such reasoning is always bad. The fixation on fallacies that some people show illustrates the extent to which this is really just not understood. But, then again, the argument from fallacy is, itself, a fallacy....
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Oct 24, 2012 at 14:30 comment added Schiphol @Ryno you are probably thinking of (in)valid arguments
Oct 24, 2012 at 8:53 comment added Ryno if I'm reading you correctly there - a fallacy states "This logic is not always true" - not "this logic is always false" (at least in these examples). Just out of interest, is there a term for "this logic is always false" specifically?
Oct 23, 2012 at 20:22 history answered Schiphol CC BY-SA 3.0