"I cannot imagine how this could be true; therefore, it must be false."
Tag: thoughts
Fallacies – Argument From Fallacy (the Fallacy Fallacy)
Assumption that if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious, the conclusion must also be false.
Fallacies – Argument From Authority (Appeal to Authority or Argumentum Ad Verecundiam)
A claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion.
Fallacies – Fallacy of Division
Assuming that something which is true of a thing must also be true of some or all of its parts (reverse of the Fallacy of Composition).
Fallacies – Fallacy of Composition
Assuming that something true of part of the whole must also be true of the whole.
Fallacies – Genetic Fallacy
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." - Seneca
Fallacies – Intro
Ever been stuck in an argument, knowing that the other person's logic is faulty, but not knowing exactly why or how?
A Great Mistake
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke
Stream
I'm an observer of my thoughts.
Raindrops
In reverie I dance, enraptured by a world of thoughts And I wish that I could catch them all, but they fall much like raindrops. I scurry about with my bucket, hoping to all the raindrops taste. Then I realize that I'd capture more if I'd stand in just one place. I cry over the …
