I am tormented annoyed by logical fallacies to no end. Since the day I learned about them at university, I decided that spotting (and avoiding them) is a passion of mine... for example, contrary to what they taught as in the Egyptian curriculum, saying phrases like "No one can deny the importance of..." or "Everyone agrees that..." is one of the most common fallacies we tend to fall into; the assumption that the other will agree with us, the assumption that we're on the right side, and the "other" is different or wrong or doesn't exist.. Hasty generalizations, they are called....
When I told my friend a couple of years ago "I don't do .... ", he laughed, and called it a categorical statement that I would get to look back at and take back. And in this, he was right.
more on fallacies and their interesting types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy
When I told my friend a couple of years ago "I don't do .... ", he laughed, and called it a categorical statement that I would get to look back at and take back. And in this, he was right.
more on fallacies and their interesting types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy
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When I read this I thought of all the fallacies being bombarded by Egyptian politics day and night on TV and elsewhere. It is one of the reasons I am losing hope.
true! in fact, I think most of us in this culture fall into this trap.. we were not taught the art/science of proper logical thinking..
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