Aaron Bergman recently defended logical fallacies against the charge that they're bad arguments. His thesis wasn't new. Gwern highlighted"Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy" and"Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence". Defending logical fallacies sounds pretty fun, so I decided to do it myself. But, I thought, if I'm going to do it, I might as well go all the way. Why not defend the final boss of all fallacies, the so-called "
Defending the non-central fallacy
Defending the non-central fallacy
Defending the non-central fallacy
Aaron Bergman recently defended logical fallacies against the charge that they're bad arguments. His thesis wasn't new. Gwern highlighted"Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy" and"Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence". Defending logical fallacies sounds pretty fun, so I decided to do it myself. But, I thought, if I'm going to do it, I might as well go all the way. Why not defend the final boss of all fallacies, the so-called "