Striker@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 years agoThe state of the discourse.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square445linkfedilinkarrow-up11.47Karrow-down1201
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minus-squareanus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down12·2 years agohttps://effectiviology.com/argument-from-incredulity/
minus-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down5·2 years agoInformal fallacies are best fallacies.
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoArgument from incredulity is “this sounds absurd, therefore it’s false.” That’s not what this is, this is just pointing out absurdity.
minus-squareanus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoThink about it again, what’s the difference? By the way, I didn’t say that this post claims it’s false. It’s worse. This post begs the reader to claim it’s false on the authors behalf
https://effectiviology.com/argument-from-incredulity/
Informal fallacies are best fallacies.
Argument from incredulity is “this sounds absurd, therefore it’s false.” That’s not what this is, this is just pointing out absurdity.
Think about it again, what’s the difference?
By the way, I didn’t say that this post claims it’s false. It’s worse. This post begs the reader to claim it’s false on the authors behalf