Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 22w

Ad Hom: “You’re stupid, therefore your argument is wrong” Not Ad Hom: “Your argument is wrong, therefore you’re stupid”

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 22w

Oh lord I will be using the crap out of this Information. It feels like every argument I have nowadays makes me say or at least think the second one.

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Anonymous #4 22w

Like, if you can argue against their point on legitimate grounds, and happen to insult them personally afterwards, or even better just call the argument stupid and not them directly, you haven’t broken any logical rules at that point. At worst you got mean unnecessarily, but as long as it’s not “You’re <flaw> therefore you’re wrong” then it’s not an ad hominem.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 22w

People who don’t actually take a couple logic classes love throwing out fallacy names without understanding what they actually mean. Ad hominem is an informal fallacy, which means it’s just not an argument. Insults aren’t arguments. Insults also don’t detract from actual formally valid arguments.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 22w

If you don’t consider logic a form of math and haven’t done it as math, I don’t wanna hear I’m doing a fallacy from you

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Anonymous #1 22w

The humor is lost on everyone it seems. Good joke

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