Larks comments on Logical fallacy poster - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Utopiah 20 April 2012 02:07PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 21 April 2012 11:33:08PM *  1 point [-]

Too strong; one does not need for them to always happen.

One does if one presents the reasoning as an unqualified logical deduction. That is the realm where most of these 'logical fallacies' apply.

Comment author: Larks 22 April 2012 10:12:59AM 0 points [-]

But that's an unreasonable standard to hold people to. If the argument can be made sound by adding a load of "will probably tend to..." operators, you should do so, not nitpick.