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Re: ...larry hoover » willyee

Posted by Larry Hoover on December 1, 2005, at 23:06:34 [reposted on December 3, 2005, at 14:38:50 | original URL]

In reply to Re: ...larry hoover, posted by willyee on December 1, 2005, at 17:26:46

> "I think I'm smarter than my pdoc, and I post to Babble. Other people post to Babble, therefore they think they're smarter than their pdoc."
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>
> Whoa Whoa Whoa,that is a mighty strong statment there.

Whoa Whoa Whow is right, dude.

That is the form of the original poster's argument, recast to follow the form I laid out.

I said: "I think it's also a fallacy of propositional logic, of the form 'if p and q, q therefore p'."

I reorganized (and slightly amended) the wording of the original post, to place it in the form of a logical proposition.

"I think I'm smarter than my pdoc, and I post to Babble. Other people post to Babble, therefore they think they're smarter than their pdoc."

*I* don't believe that. I was saying the argument is fallacious. There is no evidence that most posters to babble think they are smarter than their pdoc. I just didn't do a very good job of stating my case, I guess.

Alexandra! Help!

Lar

 

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