Sunday, July 21, 2019
JUST BECAUSE TRUMP GOT A NEW SPEECH WRITER DOES NOT MEAN HE WAS WRONG
James Grant. CNBC roundtable chat.........
Grant, unfortunately, has fallen, along with many others, into Alice in Wonderland Fallacy Land.
One wants to avoid a Kinsley Gaffe, and heaven forbid, sidestep a Morton's Fork:
Grant, unfortunately, has fallen, along with many others, into Alice in Wonderland Fallacy Land.
One wants to avoid a Kinsley Gaffe, and heaven forbid, sidestep a Morton's Fork:
Saturday, July 13, 2019
THE PUNDIT PUNDIT FALLACY AND KINSLEY GAFFE
This fallacy is committed whenever one pundit incorporates the always fallacious argument of another pundit into his own fallacious argument.
It is what one might call a fallacy on a fallacy.
See also below the post on the Kinsley Gaffe, discussed by NYT pundits, in the context of fallacies..........
See also below the post on the Kinsley Gaffe, discussed by NYT pundits, in the context of fallacies..........
One difficulty is that the average person fails to realize that the incorporated argument is fallacious.
The incorporating argument has its own, other, fallacy, as well.
What one ends up with is a regular Pig's Breakfast of Pundit Sophistry.
Here are two recent examples:
Here are two recent examples:
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