But they are. They are the root of rational thought. As you next said:
Any thinking person can see the virtual impossibility of proving a negative.
Any thinking person. And that thought requires logic. That specifically is what is lacking, the ability to think logically, to be redundant.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post. But cutting the legs out from under a faulty proposition means that you don't have to go any further. If an assertion is Fallacious then it can be dismissed at that point. No further discussion is needed.
That is my point.
I don't disagree with you, they just don't have to be characterized. I'm not trained to look at words that way but I am trained to look for holes. I think there's a nice synergy between you and me in this.