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To: cgbg

I don’t think I ‘attacked’ anyone. I just asked the question as to whether this was the same scientology/anti-vaccination person of whom we’ve heard before.

Sometimes, people with actual life experience DO use what you might call ‘logical fallacies’ -

machines may not understand that, but human beings do - and it’s often quite valid.


37 posted on 11/16/2020 7:02:28 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Sometimes, people with actual life experience DO use what you might call ‘logical fallacies’ -

The ad hominem logical fallacy has a rich history going back to ancient Greece. It was a fallacy then, and it is a fallacy now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

39 posted on 11/16/2020 7:10:08 PM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!)
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