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Logic isn’t factHere is an exchange on social media I saw. To me, "logic isn’t fact" doesn't make much sense to me. (Person 2 never claimed logic was fact) Person 1: Commits logical fallacy. Person 2: Points out the logical fallacy. Person 3: Logic isn’t fact. |
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asked on Saturday, Sep 26, 2020 09:38:50 AM by Jason Mathias | |||||||||||
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It's an ambiguous statement. You'd need to ask what they mean, and prise an argument out of them. If their reasoning is as follows: P1) My argument contains a logical fallacy, however P2) Logic is not fact, therefore C) The aforementioned objection is meaningless Then we have a standard non sequitur. Logic is the study of inferences, not 'truth' (except for logical truths, and even then, those are different kinds of 'truth'). However, an argument containing a fallacy is not logically valid, so pointing it out is worthwhile in a debate context. If their reasoning is: P1) My argument contains a logical fallacy, however, P2) Arguments containing fallacies may have true conclusions, therefore C) The aforementioned objection does not prove my argument false Then this is a valid - and true - point (see the argument from fallacy). However, it still fails to deal with the fact that the argument is flawed. Furthermore, person 2 never said anything about the argument being false, they simply said it was invalid - so person 3's response could be considered a red herring. TL;DR: More context. Ask what they (person 3) mean! |
answered on Saturday, Sep 26, 2020 05:30:03 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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