TGM comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - LessWrong

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Comment author: TGM 27 August 2012 09:47:09AM 15 points [-]

We can reflectively apply our intuition - we can use the phrase "Capital punishment is murder" to remind other people that capital punishment does share some of the same disadvantages that all other murders have

More generally, it is worth noting that a very tempting class of bad arguments is those which are slightly true, such as this.

Comment author: kilobug 27 August 2012 10:37:40AM 8 points [-]

Reminds me of http://lesswrong.com/lw/aq2/fallacies_as_weak_bayesian_evidence/

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 11:05:39PM *  0 points [-]

That's more or less the point of http://lesswrong.com/lw/aq2/fallacies_as_weak_bayesian_evidence/.

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