just for fun… the 10 commandments of logic

[JoB]

https://www.tumblr.com/religiouscritic/21227658833/10-commandments-of-logic

yes, i know these come from a website dedicated to the mockery of Christianity…

so .. for those who would let their offense at what they see as mockery blind them to content..

i have edited to preserve the content while removing the mockery… and inserted my own comments or qualifiers in parenthesis

1. Ad hominem … attacking the person’s character, not the argument.

2. Straw man fallacy…misrepresenting or exaggerating a person’s argument in order to make them easier to attack

3. Hasty generalization … using small numbers to represent the whole… (small numbers can be used as examples if they in fact represent the whole)

4. Begging the question … arguing your position by assuming one of its premises is true (“everybody knows … “)

5. Post Hoc/False cause … claiming that (just) because something occurred before, it must be the cause

6. False dichotomy … reducing the argument down to two (only) possibilities

7. Ad ignorantum … arguing that because of our ignorance, claim must be true or false (“you just don’t know”)

8. Burden of proof reversal … laying the burden of proof onto him that is questioning the claim (there is an equal responsibility for burden of proof on both sides of the argument)

9. Non sequitur … assuming “this” follows “that” when it has no logical connection (like #5. Post Hoc/False cause except with ideas instead of events)

10. Bandwagon fallacy … claiming that because a premise is popular, therefore it must be true (the “everybody knows … ” of #4 … begging the question)

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[JoB]

thank you to Charlabob for posting this where she knew i would see it ;->

i don’t know about you.. but i confess that on occasions i have been guilty of one or more of these sins of logic…

even if only by unintentional omission of information…

that’s the one i call cherry picking and it refers to acknowledging only the information that supports your argument and ignoring that which does not…

passion and logic can co-exist.. but as my friend so subtly reminded me.. only when one criticizes the content and value of their own argument :)

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[JKB]

and Correlation Implies Causation! I see these things happen together, therefore one must cause the other.

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[JoB]

yes!

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[waynster]

kinda like this lol…..

http://www.uclick.com/client/spi/nq/2013/05/20/index.html

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[JoB]

waynster.. your link made me chuckle..

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