SaveFerris wrote:
Since joining this forum I've seen a lot of arguments referring to fallacies , I'd never even heard of this before here and have to look up the fallacy when one is mentioned. Is this some sort of intellectual way of arguing or is it the quickest way to get a smack in the face - Argumentum ad baculum ?
There's the fallacy fallacy: "You presumed that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong. It is entirely possible to make a claim that is false yet argue with logical coherency for that claim, just as it is possible to make a claim that is true and justify it with various fallacies and poor arguments.
Example: Recognising that Amanda had committed a fallacy in arguing that we should eat healthy food because a nutritionist said it was popular, Alyse said we should therefore eat bacon double cheeseburgers every day."
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacywait... what?