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I think that form of argumentation is a combination of analogy (because it's applied to something else that shares the analogy's critical element) and reductio ad absurdum . Fallacious attempts that fail to do that in a reasonable way result to weak analogy . |
answered on Sunday, Jul 31, 2022 12:48:11 PM by Kostas Oikonomou | |
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I wrote about this calling it the Reductio Ad Consequentia. See my post at https://www.hostingauthors.com/posts/bobennett/reductio_ad_consequentia___reducing_the_argument_to_the_consequences.html . |
answered on Saturday, Jul 30, 2022 02:37:20 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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This is what you wrote: "I want to demonstrate how utterly bad their thinking is by swapping out me and my argument with someone else and their argument, then apply their fallacies to that argument." I think this is your concern: If you agree with what I understood, then let's produce an example. Example: In the example, Timmy's mom switched the person to Timmy's dad so that Timmy can avoid pre-conceived biases (like "my mom doesn't understand!") and switches the scenario in such a way that the advice given is somewhat similar to a point she's getting across (lack of responsibility implies less success). If you agree with how I understood you, then I think this is technically not a reductio ad absurdum because I think that's a method to prove something by contradiction. What I think you're doing here is that you're actually accusing your opponents of a variation of special pleading. This is because maybe you're supposing that if they got a different scenario with different people, they wouldn't use the same standards on them as they are doing to you. Or perhaps they are not spotting what they're doing. |
answered on Sunday, Jul 31, 2022 01:40:47 PM by Jorge | |
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