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Whimsicott

What is this fallacy that person 2 made

Person 1: heroin is highly addictive therefore its bad for people 

Person 2: heroin isn't addictive because addiction was around before heroin

asked on Friday, Sep 30, 2022 07:14:17 PM by Whimsicott

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Mchasewalker
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Ad hoc Rescue or an MSU ( making shit up) non-sequitur. The history of addiction has nothing to do with the physically addictive properties of Heroin. 

answered on Friday, Sep 30, 2022 07:45:57 PM by Mchasewalker

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Kostas Oikonomou
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When a result can happen due to multiple causes but we miss some of them, our conclusion will be false and that would be a case of affirming the consequent .

The argument here is:
Something caused addiction to people before the invention of heroin, for example coca leaves.
coca => addiction
We have addiction therefore we have THAT which caused addiction before the invention of HEROIN (and  therefore the cause is not heroin).
addiction => coca

We know that
coca => addiction
and we miss that
heroin => addiction

answered on Saturday, Oct 01, 2022 08:57:15 AM by Kostas Oikonomou

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Jorge
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"The existence of a kind of thing does not allow the existence of new things of the same kind."

That's a made-up rule. This would be wishful thinking 

answered on Saturday, Oct 01, 2022 12:08:28 PM by Jorge

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