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Originally Posted by sweevo
Logical fallacy: appeal to popularity.
Do you know what logical fallacies are?
Do you know why they should not be argued?
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I do know what a fallacy is. But for a fallacy to have any meaning or application in this life you need to first be sure of your premises and include a realistic model to test. You just set up arbitrary rules in your arguments which you know beforehand are going to lead to the conclusion you favor. Sort of like Socrates talking about farmers and so forth to get people to trip up over themselves. Although Socrates aimed for more reality. It sort of like complex mathematics. You can discover amazing truths through the manipulation of numbers but whether they actually have any application to reality is another matter.