The Fallacy Fallacy Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

[Into the Night]

What about it? Are you another troll name for Into Night?

You can't blame Sybil's socks on me, Hugo.

 

[Into the Night]

I will be requesting you banned from all of my threads.

Removing yourself from the conversation only lets people talk behind your back, Hugo.

 

[Into the Night]

You violate rule 14 every day. Be gone.

I'm not a troll account, Hugo. You can't blame me for your problem.

 

[Into the Night]

I know what logic is. I explained it. Very standard definition.

Lie. You have no idea what logic is. Redefinition fallacy. Void reference fallacy. Denial of logic.

 

[Into the Night]

Not true. Inference is used when there are gaps in the available data or information. The primary means by which logic is applied is through facts and hard data. Without some basis in fact and data, inferences cannot be made. On the other hand, with facts and data at hand, inferences are not always necessary.

Logic requires no data. It it is not information. It requires no fact. It is not inference.

Like mathematics, logic is defined by a set of axioms. It is a closed functional system, just like mathematics.

 

[Into the Night]

No. Logic is about the relation between statements. It is not about whether a statement is true or false.

Redefinition fallacy. Denial of logic.

 

[Into the Night]

It is raining. I better wear a rain coat is an inference.

No, Hugo. It is a decision. It also presupposes you have a raincoat to wear.

 

[Jake Starkey]

What about it? Are you another troll name for Into Night?

Are you another troll name for mad mulligan?

 

[Into the Night]

If 'A' is true, then 'B' is true. Basic logical form of inference.

Non-sequitur fallacy. ?A->B is an invalid equation, Hugo.

Notice, correct inferences can be made from a false statement.

No 'inference'. Buzzword fallacy. You made an INVALID statement. Non-sequitur fallacy.

 

[Hume]

Are you another troll name for mad mulligan?

No.

 

[Into the Night]

It's basis however is in the facts and data presented. Without those, the statements themselves are meaningless.

Logic does not require a fact or data.

 

[Into the Night]

No, it isn't. You simply left out the intermediate steps getting to that conclusion.

It is raining.
I don't want to be rained on.
My choices to keep that from happening are a raincoat, umbrella, etc.
I have a raincoat but lack an umbrella.
I should wear a raincoat.

This part is more accurate. Logic is not involved here. It is simply a decision whether to wear a raincoat.

Inference is something like Democritus, a Greek philosopher, postulating that because you can divide things into smaller parts of the whole there must be something smaller than can be seen allowing that and called that thing atomos. He couldn't observe but only infer that atomos existed.

This is philosophy, not logic. However, it also conforms to the requirements of logic, even though it invented a concept (atomos).

 

[Into the Night]

Inference is the basis of logic.

Nope. Logic is defined by axioms, just like mathematics. Inference is not required.

 

[Hume]

Nope. Logic is defined by axioms, just like mathematics. Inference is not required.

waiting for you to be banned

 

[Into the Night]

Logic is basically saying, if this statement is true, what else is true because of it.

?A->?? is an invalid statement, Hugo. Incomplete argument.

 

[Into the Night]

Are you another troll name for mad mulligan?

You can't blame your socks on anybody else, Sybil.

 

[Into the Night]

waiting for you to be banned

For what, Hugo?

 

[Crepitus]

Try English. It works better.

What language do you think that was, Son?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Logic requires no data. It it is not information. It requires no fact. It is not inference.

Like mathematics, logic is defined by a set of axioms. It is a closed functional system, just like mathematics.

Those are the rules. But they are useless without data and information to run the equations, just like in mathematics.

 

[Hume]

Those are the rules. But they are useless without data and information to run the equations, just like in mathematics.

Logic is about how we combine statements. Not about their individual truths.