That’s a rather rigid view of rhetoric. I know common fallacies have been documented (mostly in infographic form) but the way that you categorize them and how you define them isn’t some immutable law of the universe, and neither are their names. Collections of fallacies aren’t very reliable. More official sources exist but they don’t tend to name very specific fallacies.
Anyways, what really bothers me is this:
Labelling something a fallacy, without understanding whether it is or isn’t, is a subtle form of disinformation.
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding that I cannot allow. Something isn’t a fallacy because some guy said it is; that, ironically, is an Appeal to Authority Fallacy™. Memorizing a list of fallacies by name does not teach you what a fallacy is and it certainly doesn’t grant you understanding like you claim. The list doesn’t decide what a fallacy is. A logical fallacy is simply a mistake or nonrigorous section in an argument that follows a common pattern. If you can identify the pattern, and you can identify that it’s not logically sound, you can call it a fallacy. That’s not disinformation just because you didn’t read about it on logicalfallacies.com.
That’s because my original post was casual conversation, and this response was part of an argument. If I want to be clear in an argument I have to be more specific, which means choosing my words carefully. I’m not posing lmao, the most complicated word there is probably “nonrigorous” and that’s really not that hard. Anyways, since you neglected to respond to the actual content of my argument and decided to act in bad faith, I’m done here.
That’s a rather rigid view of rhetoric. I know common fallacies have been documented (mostly in infographic form) but the way that you categorize them and how you define them isn’t some immutable law of the universe, and neither are their names. Collections of fallacies aren’t very reliable. More official sources exist but they don’t tend to name very specific fallacies.
Anyways, what really bothers me is this:
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding that I cannot allow. Something isn’t a fallacy because some guy said it is; that, ironically, is an Appeal to Authority Fallacy™. Memorizing a list of fallacies by name does not teach you what a fallacy is and it certainly doesn’t grant you understanding like you claim. The list doesn’t decide what a fallacy is. A logical fallacy is simply a mistake or nonrigorous section in an argument that follows a common pattern. If you can identify the pattern, and you can identify that it’s not logically sound, you can call it a fallacy. That’s not disinformation just because you didn’t read about it on logicalfallacies.com.
If only you had put this much effort and consideration into your original post. Was it fun shuffling through your vocabulary for maximum effect?
That’s because my original post was casual conversation, and this response was part of an argument. If I want to be clear in an argument I have to be more specific, which means choosing my words carefully. I’m not posing lmao, the most complicated word there is probably “nonrigorous” and that’s really not that hard. Anyways, since you neglected to respond to the actual content of my argument and decided to act in bad faith, I’m done here.