To: metmom
“Throw a rock over a fence and the dog that yelps is the one that got hit.”
So if you accuse someone of something and they defend themselves, they are proved guilty because of the need to defend. If the accused don’t respond, the maxim of qui tacet consentire videtur can be used, and they are proved guilty by not responding.
Can someone name this logical fallacy in ten posts or less?
48 posted on
06/11/2008 6:49:39 AM PDT by
cizinec
("I've never heard a corpse ask how it got so cold.")
To: cizinec
No one accused anyone of anything. But we got a yelp right away.
50 posted on
06/11/2008 6:53:34 AM PDT by
colorcountry
(To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: cizinec; metmom; Virginia Ridgerunner; patton
“Throw a rock over a fence and the dog that yelps is the one that got hit.”... Can someone name this logical fallacy in ten posts or less?Logic? My friend, the delusional don't NEED no stinkin' logic!
51 posted on
06/11/2008 6:53:48 AM PDT by
Nervous Tick
(I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
To: cizinec; colorcountry; JRochelle
Who was accused?
One poster simply made a generic comment and suddenly someone bristles and reacts.
A dog got hit.
70 posted on
06/11/2008 7:08:14 AM PDT by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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