These are great things to keep in mind for online communication. There are a lot of logical fallacy fanboys online. Their M.O. is to look for the tiniest gap in your method of debate and then latch on to it like a terrier. Their initial hope is that their wall of logical rules is impenetrable to you. Then, even though they are accusing their opponent of logical fallacies left and right, they end up on the Sleight of…
AD HOMINEM! No seriously. It is. If you present an argument online, and someone points out that you've committed a logical fallacy. They've undermined your argument and rendered your conclusion unproven. If your response is to attack them as "logical fallacy fanboys".. attacking their intentions and other non-salient points... that doesn't change the argument at hand and consequently you've committed an ad hominem! I…
Re: Conversational Terrorism: the ways people (consciously or unconsciously) conversationally cheat
#11I'm saying that all they do is point out logical fallacies, and that eventually they point out ones that are merely their own inference, and were not actually part of what you said. It becomes an endless meta-argument about how to argue.