Eugine_Nier comments on Don't Get Offended - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 March 2013 01:44:08AM 4 points [-]

I generally avoid criticizing reasoning that reliably reaches correct conclusions.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 March 2013 10:20:29AM -2 points [-]

I'm not sure what the relevance of that to my comment is.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 14 March 2013 01:43:34AM 3 points [-]

The reasoning you described reaches valid (object level) conclusions in the different cases under consideration, but you still prefer to analyze it as full of fallacies for some reason.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 March 2013 02:43:02PM -2 points [-]

Huh, no. If an argument has premises “all X are Y” and “John is an X” and conclusion “John is not Y”, it is broken. Whether the conclusion happens to be true because one of the premises is false is irrelevant.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 March 2013 02:11:31AM 4 points [-]

The argument's stated premises were "X are Y", you decided to interpret the ambiguous statement as "all X are Y" and then complain that it makes the argument formally false.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 March 2013 10:18:44AM -2 points [-]

Re-read the fifth word of this comment. (Or am I missing something?)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 March 2013 02:15:44AM 4 points [-]

You may want to (re)read this comment to see/remember how this discussion started.