On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 09:43:39 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 05:45:43 UTC, Brad Roberts
wrote:
I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical
fallacies that I see used all the time on the D newsgroups:
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg
I might just have to order one of those posters. :)
Later,
Brad
One not on that chart that Walter's particularly fond of is
argumentum e silentio (no insult intended =)).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence
Wikipedia doesn't explain it very well.
http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/logical
fallacies.htm#argumentum ex silentio
