Timeline for Is there any rational justification to the counterargument "I refuse to answer your question on the basis that it is a hypothetical question?"
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| Mar 24, 2019 at 15:46 | history | edited | Rushi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2019 at 15:39 | comment | added | Rushi | @Philosophist I've added a different approach to explanation and more examples. Hope that helps! | |
| Mar 24, 2019 at 15:36 | history | edited | Rushi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 5:23 | comment | added | Rushi | More on my last comment: Sure you could go from 2 to multi to infinite levels to tangled hierarchies, strange loops. And all such zany Gödel-Escher-Bach stuff. But (my opinion) for now just grokking two levels thoroughly may be more useful. Give me a little time and I will fill out more explanatory (hopefully!) examples | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 4:53 | comment | added | Rushi | Sure the accusation "You are arguing in bad faith!" could itself be made in bad faith. But no I did not want to invoke this extra complexity into the discussion (just yet 😈 ) | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 4:43 | comment | added | Philosophist | Oh, so you mean to say that people stop trying to make sense and just spit out whatever sounds clever to them. It's bad faith, but we could grant the charity that they acted in bad faith due to their impression that I was acting in bad faith. Is that what you mean? | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 2:31 | comment | added | Rushi | Or... Let's say a "heated argument" is proceeding. It suddenly "ends" with blows being exchanged. Or worse someone pulls out a gun. Can we therefore conclude that a fist or a gun are argument-winning strategies? If not should they be listed in the official lists of fallacious arguments? | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 2:22 | comment | added | Rushi | Umm... Are you asking about one of the egs? Both? The relation to the above? To the basic notion of levels (of reality)? Are you familiar with the use-mention distinction en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction ? Here is a 3 line "proof" that I often give my students to illustrate the U-M distinction: «1» Cat is a mammal «2» Mammal is a six letter word «3» Therefore cat is a six letter word | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 22:40 | comment | added | Philosophist | Could you expand on what you are saying in the "Egregious examples" section of your post? I'm a bit lost on what you are suggesting there. | |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 8:56 | history | answered | Rushi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |