Assertion: argument | /r/HasProperty | fallacious
Facets:
value: for reasons
type: CAUSE
value: for the discussion at hand
type: PURPOSE
value: to the common man
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Call out your opponent on their use of the strawman, by explaining why their argument is fallacious, and how it distorts your original stance.
text: When an argument holds that a conclusion is likely to be true precisely because the one who holds or is presenting it lacks authority, it is a fallacious appeal to the common man.
text: Call out your opponent on their use of the strawman, by explaining why their argument is fallacious, and how it distorts your original stance.
text: Also, there is always the option to point out your opponent's use of the strawman argument and provide an explanation of why their argument is fallacious and non-relevant for the discussion at hand.
text: It can be difficult to evaluate whether an argument is fallacious, as arguments exist along a continuum of soundness and an argument that has several stages or parts might have some sound sections and some fallacious ones.
text: Maarten Boudry and others have argued that formal, deductive fallacies rarely occur in real life and that arguments that would be fallacious in formally deductive terms are not necessarily so when context and prior probabilities are taken into account, thus making the argument defeasible and/or inductive.
text: Hence on the pragmatic approach, each case needs to analyzed individually, to determine by the textual evidence whether the argument is fallacious or reasonable.
text: However, he later criticized the argument, asserting that "the argument does not, to a modern mind, seem very convincing, but it is easier to feel convinced that it must be fallacious than it is to find out precisely where the fallacy lies."
text: Informal fallacies – arguments that are fallacious for reasons other than structural (formal) flaws and that usually require examination of the argument's content.
text: That the argument is fallacious only means that the argument cannot succeed in proving its consequent.
text: The fact that Tom's argument was fallacious is not, in itself, a proof that his conclusion is false.
text: For example, the argument that since all the bricks in the wall are small, the wall is small, is fallacious.
text: 160–67) that this argument for the contingency of the universe is fallacious, for even if every contingent being were to fail to exist in some possible world, it may be the case that there is no possible world that lacks a contingent being.