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To: freedumb2003
Don’t try to argue logic via wikipedia. Either you know it or you do not.

Find me even one credible reference that defines "argumentum ad absurdum" as "...makes no sense in any way, shape or form" and I'll concede to you and withdraw from the argument.

(I'll be most interested to see how you weasel out of accepting THAT challenge)

88 posted on 04/01/2012 9:16:28 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if...")
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To: papertyger

You are going to hang on that tiny tendril, no matter what.

You are a joke. I am sure you will say the same about me, no matter what — the difference is my logical analysis is apt and your is... um, not.

You have violated 4 logical fallacies and are hoping that the fact I pointed out the argumantum ad absurdium — your conclusion that taking a child in a cart to his car is somehow evil or bad is singularly MOST absurd — will somehow overcome your clear attempt to use a combination of that (now defeated) argument and strawmen (so many I leave it to observers to count).

It is clear you immediately said to yourself “OMG, he used Latin! Let me check on Wikipedia! OH, LOOK, I think he misused this idea! (you are wrong btw)””

Of course any 1st semester logician would see your false dichotomy (which you have forced me to point now on 2 or 3 occasions) fails on many levels.

You can’t win logic arguments if you don’t understand logic. The best you can do, as you have laughably attempted, is mimic the sounds of those who DO know logic. Like a parrot who repeats his master’s words on cue.

But I appreciate your attempts. As MTM’s Murray Slaughter said (paraphrasing) — “it isn’t so high the pig flies, it is that he tried at all.”

Your attempts to throw mud against that which you are unable to address intellectually is understandable, if pitiful.

Next time, go to DU. Those mental midgets are about your level.

Oh, and it was you who said that men and women are treated differently with the same circumstance. All your dancing, and no proof.

So sad.


94 posted on 04/01/2012 10:52:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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