In Victoria we have the legacy of Dan Andrews who, citing the demonstrably false [HRJ] claim that PT encouraged pill taking (a belief favoured by Craig Kelly), insisted that under his leadership PT would never b
To claim that something that is perceived as ‘natural’ is good.This type of argument has the following basic structure: “X is natural (and natural is good), so therefore X is good”. To claim that something that is perceived as ‘unnatural’ is bad.This type of argument has the foll...
This meant that he could not claim it was evidence of the ‘great railway swindle’ during the 1845–1846 ‘mania’, but inquisitive readers of Volume 3 could draw the inference that, if they looked, they would find the same practices. He found, as he said, ‘some evidence of the ...
In an argument from consequences scheme, for example, appropriate questions would be: (1) How strong is the likelihood that the cited consequences will occur? (2) What evidence supports the claim that the cited consequences will occur, and is the evidence sufficient to adequately support the ...
When pivoting to a positive statement doesn’t fit into the discussion you’re having, another strategy for revising an ad hominem claim is refocusing your argument on relevant facts. For example, you might make this argument: “In each of the past three years my opponent has served as tre...
In 2 he really doesn’t claim anything except incredulity. When he says he “knows a resurrection makes no sense” he offers no reasons or arguments. If it was just some random person allegedly rising from the dead, he might have a point, but there was a context to the resurrection that...
Referred to as the appeal to consequences of a belief, this may be a rationalization involving the fallacious argument that the consequences of accepting whether a certain proposition is true or false have a bearing in determining the claim's truth—or there will negative consequences now or in ...
There are exceptions to this rule, but they do not seem to be relevant in our context, so I will not discuss them here for the sake of brevity. This way of thinking about knowledge has the following consequences. If we claim that S knows that the system Q is in the state 0 , ...
when people call out the use of some logical fallacy and claim that it necessarily invalidates the conclusion of the argument that it’s in (e.g. “you used a fallaciousappeal to emotion, so what you’re saying is wrong”). However, the use of this fallacy can also be implicit, such...
because it can thus quietly forget its original claim of being able to bring more prosperity to mankind, and instead resort to the altogether different but even more inspiring claim that whereas socialism might not be the key to prosperity, it would mean justice, fairness, and morality (all te...