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Originally Posted by crich70
Sort of the same distinction between Internet and internet then. Internet refers to the World Wide Web as a whole with all its billions of connections but internet refers to a local network such as within an office building. So my Dr. might go on the Internet to check his mail but on the internet at the clinic to check to see if my lab results have come back yet for example.
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Yes. The fallacy would occur if someone said,
The
Internet is not secure; there are hackers that could steal patients' data.
Therefore we must stop using the
internet.
The argument relies on a bait-and-switch at the end that really only works if the two words are homonyms. If you called Internet "World Wide Web" and internet "LAN", then the argument wouldn't work anymore.
The
World Wide Web is not secure; there are hackers that could steal patients' data.
Therefore we must stop using the
LAN.