Oh I wouldn't worry about your logic Mr. Ox.Originally Posted by herb ox
But perhaps it was my bad by goading you on with my hopeless human illogic. Ever since Leonard Nimoy passed away my logical side has been suffering
Soco frequently demonstrates a far worse logical fallacy. That is the fallacy of appealing to logical fallacy (argumentum ad logicam). A point itself is not wrong because of the way it is argued or arrived at. The point itself must also be tackled as well as the working method. Frequently people arrive at the correct answer through poor reasoning and people can arrive at the wrong answer through good reasoning. We are human beings and not computers. Large parts of our reasoning process are hidden even from ourselves and we cannot express every facet of our workings. Conclusions cannot be dismissed because of a lack of logic in what a person happens to articulate as their thought process, the conclusion itself must be dealt with directly. Fallacious arguments can still arrive at true conclusions.
Ignoratio elenchi, this is frequently Soco's fallacy.
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