Timeline for Is using analogies a bad logic reasoning?
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| Dec 21, 2018 at 20:01 | comment | added | user10378 | @Richard - it could even reach the level of a straw-man argument. "A says B. B implies C, therefore A says C." Depending on two things: does A actually say B, and does B actually imply C. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 15:47 | comment | added | Richard | @Joachim I didn't read his question that way.. in that case this isn't an analogy in any case. It's a perfectly reasonable argument demonstrating the hypocrisy of that particular group. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 15:42 | comment | added | Joachim | But that was the point he made using his analogy: if gay marriage is wrong because only a Christian marriage is a right marriage, then it follows that a wedding of any kind is wrong unless it is a Christian one. The mentioned 'contra-gay marriage group' mixed these two up (within the confines of their superficially represented ideology), and the OP emphasized that. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 14:40 | history | answered | Richard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |