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Does this fallacy exist?I tried searching Current Year fallacy but couldnt find anything. The current year is an argument I see a lot and suspected it that it was a fallacy. For example: It's the current year, why doesnt everyone have X
"It's the 2018 why doesnt everyone have a smart phone?" Does this fallacy exist? |
| asked on Friday, Apr 13, 2018 03:41:29 PM by | |
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It would fall under a non sequiter , assuming that the year has nothing/little to do with X.
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| answered on Friday, Apr 13, 2018 03:43:47 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD |
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Actually, behind this is a valid logical conclusion with the expected result. My understanding of the underlying statement is as follows: (1) in the year 2018, everybody has a smartphone. (2) it is the year 2018. (3) everybody has a smartphone. So far this a "textbook example" of the 'modus ponens', one of the most elementary logic figures. Except that we have already established that (3) is false . This means in turn that at least one of (1) or (2) must be false , too – either it is not the year 2018, or there isn't really a rule that says that everybody in 2018 must have a smartphone. Since I can verify the current year by quickly glancing at my wall calendar, I have to assume that it's actually premise (1) that is false . I hope that explains. No (logical) fallacy here, just a wrong presumption (is there a named fallacy for that?) @AdHominemInfo |
| answered on Tuesday, Apr 17, 2018 07:43:34 AM by Ad Hominem Info |
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Chronological snobbery
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| answered on Wednesday, Apr 18, 2018 12:36:23 AM by mchasewalker |
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