Douglas_Knight comments on Defense Against The Dark Arts: Case Study #1 - Less Wrong

100 Post author: Yvain 28 March 2009 02:31AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 30 March 2009 03:26:00AM 4 points [-]

Still, five fallacies is a lot for a two sentence anecdote.

I think that is related to the open-ended nature of the statement. Because it doesn't clearly state its reasoning or conclusion, there are lots of ways of fallaciously completing it.