The Fallacy Challenge

Thanks Pro! I. Preface I thank Pro for this semi-serious semi-troll semi-amusement debate. I hated every round of it, haha. I will tie this round off by affirming my arguments and negating any alleged logical fallacies. II. Pro’s final round fallacy claims Pro makes several fallacy claims against my this round based on my lack of argumentation in the previous round, however these can be dismissed out of hand, because logical fallacies deal with arguments themselves, and in the absence of arguments a fallacy simply cannot be made. It’s like claiming a football team won a match that was never played. It’s logically absurd. Morgan Freeman has candy Note that Pro has given no reasons to believe the critical premise of his “killer” argument: “If M.F. has cotton candy, then your argument, your argument is invalid” There simply is no logical progression from the taste of cotton candy, it’s sweetness or the fact Morgan Freeman is holding it to the validity of my arguments. Pro’s only useful point was that it would knock me unconscious and hence make my arguments invalid. But how does my being unconscious make my arguments invalid? Unconsciousness only means I am no longer aware of the outside world, it doesn’t mean my reasoning faculties are inactive. I must say I have dreamed many a good idea in my slumber, and I am sure many voters have too! III. Murphy’s Law I concede that Murphy’s Law is valid, however the conclusion assumes an infinite length of time. If I was giving argument ad infinitum, then it is a certainty that I will make at least one fallacy, however this debate is only 4 argument rounds long, and I have already used a clever loophole to circumvent the need to argue one of the rounds. Why is it a clever loophole? Because Pro affirmed Murphy’s Law! And him criticising me for not giving full arguments last round would be to indirectly undermine his own argument (that I would eventually make a fallacy), so either he allows me to progress through Round 4 with minimal arguments, or he criticises it and undermines his Murphy’s Law argument. Either were bad for Pro. IV. Other Fallacy Claims Pro reaffirms his first genetic fallacy claim with the following: “I'm trying to say that if you say "Wylted could not spot a single logical fallacy in my debate, thus 9space has the near-impossible task of spotting a logical fallacy", this has the genetic fallacy. “ Well this is a strawman, as I never made such an argument, I only asserted that Wylted and Toviyah are likely to spot logical fallacies if I made them, and they did now. I gave the argument as probabilistic. It is possible that they did miss them, but considering their debate and argumentation styles, for which I gave evidential support, it seems unlikely. I highlighted specific examples for voters to see for themselves at their own leisure and I gave more than one. Pro continues to affirm my alleged fallacies in my reducio ad hitlerum argument, and seems to misunderstand what ad homenum actually means, which specifically is the attack of the argument’s author, or source rather than the argument itself. It might be the case that it logically follows that Pro is a bad person (I don’t think it does), but that’s not what the argument is demonstrating.[1] I am attacking his argument and not the person in my efforts to invalidate it. Moreover special pleading =/= ‘moving the goalposts’, they are completely different categories of logical fallacies, and neither are formal fallacies. Pro has merely asserted I have moved the goalposts, when it was he was changed the topic himself, lol. Misunderstanding the fallacy and me pointing out it is not said fallacy is not equivalent to me committing the said fallacy. Note that Pro is the one who originally brought up special pleading, hence the only person who could have ‘moved the goalposts’ is Pro himself! V. Conclusion No fallacies have been committed on my behalf, despite Pro’s bizarre attempts to prove as much. And I am so glad this debate is over. Kill me now. VI. References. 1. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com...