appletheclown wrote:
Sherlock03 wrote:
If you cannot rationally and empirically prove your stance,then it is not an opinion it is a belief. The problem is that people often interchange the two, so debates become as fruitless as talking about the belief in a hollow earth.
An opinion is not a theory you can disprove. An opinion is a belief, how is my opinion of Rolo candy being delicious a theory? You can't prove or disprove that it is delicious to me as much as you can disprove or prove God.
If you try and prove that I don't enjoy Rolos, I will be ashamed I even started this thread.
appleclown, you young age is showing,
You did committ a fallacy earlier, and now you say an opinion cannot be proven false.
My opinion is that this sentence ends. ( True )
My opinion is that this sentence has twenty-five words. (False)
A logical fallacy has to do with the relationship of the premises and conclusions of the statement, not the content of the statement itself. You appeared to have this confused based on your response earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of ... _privation
The fallacy of relative privation is an informal fallacy which attempts to suggest that the opponent's argument should be ignored because there are more important problems in the world — despite the fact that these issues are often completely unrelated to the subject under discussion.
That is precisly what you did.
Your statement of .... "Hey, things aren't so bad for you. Look at these other places where people have it worst (Rwanda for example) " suggests her arguments should be ignored because some greater problem in the world.
You can delete your posts and I will delete this if you want.