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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
But I didn't make an argument! There was no "argumentum" to be "ad numerum." I didn't implore her to believe anything; I didn't even express my own opinion.

And I quote:

... and most people who've examined the law and the historical background have concluded that "born a citizen" means the same as "natural born citizen."

From message 312.

I can't help but think you just don't like the fact that most people disagree with you and are annoyed that I drew attention to it.

Of course i'm annoyed with it. It is the promulgation of a fallacious understanding of a legal point by means of a fallacious argument. (That enough people believing something makes it true.)

It is hard enough to get accuracy on this issue without people resorting to fallacious appeals to numbers, popularity, authority, and repetition. Good God people, didn't you study Logic and Fallacies in College?

Monkeys screech at spectacle, Men Reason.

350 posted on 05/08/2013 1:44:59 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp
And I quote:...

C'mon, dude, you're not that dumb. My observing what most people have concluded is no more an argument than a statement that "most early astronomers believed the sun went around the Earth" would mean that I was arguing for geocentrism.

352 posted on 05/08/2013 3:55:15 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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