Monday, September 18, 2006

Fascinating page

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2 comments:

Mr roT said...

Back in the day when some other guys, AI and I would just email our drivel to one another, we used to flog each other with a fallacy page from utexas.edu That I can no longer find.
One of our interlocutors used to be guilty of the Straw Man fallacy as a rule and so his tu quoques misspelled resulted in AI and I mockingly calling each other Mr Straman [sic] for awhile.
You are right that this is great fun.

9/18/2006 9:22 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

What is needed is for someone to construct The Uniquely Perfect Fallacy. That is, construct an argument, which purports to justify some "serious" point, and which uses each fallacy precisely once, and yet is so written that many people, for example the good citizens of Huntingtonia, will buy it completely. Of course Huntingtonia may be too low a standard. Perhaps the self-stlyled intellectuals of Chomskiana?
OK, Pepe, with his "Insiders" knowledge has an advantage on us all. But why not each of us try it? There could even be some obnoxious little prize related to it, and ideas as to what it should be and what the prize should be named?

9/18/2006 11:51 PM

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