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Fallacy: Ad Hominem
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html ^

Posted on 03/18/2002 8:12:30 AM PST by Brookhaven

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To: Howlin
There also seems to be something which we might term the "fallacy fallacy."

Namely, the conclusion that because an argument is fallacious the conclusion is false!

For instance, I often hear people argue that since "correlation does not PROVE causation,"
if two things are correlated, one can infer that they are NOT causally related!

That's awkwardly worded, but I think you see my point.

61 posted on 03/18/2002 6:28:12 PM PST by DrNo
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