To: Blogger
The fallacy is non sequitor (it does not follow that...).
B does not follow from A.
C does not follow from A or B.
The sylogism is irrational.
10 posted on
10/15/2005 8:03:09 PM PDT by
Louis Foxwell
(THIS IS WAR AND I MEAN TO WIN IT.)
To: Amos the Prophet
Yes, indeed a non sequitur, well done. This isn't false dichotomy, because the limitation of exactly two alternatives is not defined. The presence of a quantified epistemic premise ('Most of the world does not know') as the operational impetus to 'conclusion' makes this argument a hopeless muddle, logically. Probably should be phrased as ((p ^ q) ^ r) > (~p v ~q), or perhaps better, ((p ^ q) ^ Kr) > (~p v ~q), both of which are clearly not theorems by inspection.
15 posted on
10/16/2005 11:17:04 AM PDT by
SAJ
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