Timeline for Is using analogies a bad logic reasoning?
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| Dec 22, 2018 at 22:43 | comment | added | tox123 | @rus9384 I'm saying the term "False Analogy" refers to that fallacy, Straw man is not that fallacy. | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | rus9384 | @tox123 Whether analogy is false or not is more like it is appealing or not. More like that. | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 1:12 | comment | added | tox123 | @rus9384 doesn't mean those people are correct though. A bad analogy is a seperate fallacy, refered to as False Analogy. I suppose you could argue for Straw Man being a type of False Analogy, but they are not interchangable. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 19:35 | comment | added | rus9384 | But there are cases when an analogy is good and when people call it straw man. Often opinions divide. I certainly think that a logical argument often is in fact an aesthetical argument. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 14:13 | history | answered | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |