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Fallacy of secundum quid

(Informal fallacy) Variants known as fallacy of accident, fallacy of hasty generalization. This is the ...
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lmorovan
05/02/2008

Fallacy of secundum quid 4

I have the right of free speech, therefore, I have the right to attack and insult Christians to my likening.

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GenghisTheHun
12/30/2006

Fallacy of secundum quid 5

We don't see this too much on the RIA, but we see it more and more in society. "My home is my castle." This is a common saying and ignores the exceptions.

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kamylienne
01/16/2004

Fallacy of secundum quid 4

Yuck. I hear a lot that it's a free country here, but I believe I'm one of the few people left who thinks that criminals breaking into my house have no right to sue me (I heard a story once of a burglar who tried breaking in through a sun roof and ended up breaking his foot; he then sued the owners of the house and won. Apparently, the argument was that everyone, even criminals, have rights, and he broke his foot on your property. Uninvited or not, that's neglect.). I'm also one of the few who believe that artistic lisence/artistic freedom doesn't mean that you can pee on a canvas and call it art. JonTheMan, I suggest if you ever meet the idiot who wants to try to prove that 2+2=5, offer to give them two dollar bills twice in exchange for his five dollar bill. That'll shut him up.

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JonTheMan
01/16/2004

Fallacy of secundum quid 5

For once I think irishgit will be completely in agreement with me here. Anyway, once I encountered a young lady who wrote a poem. It was pointed out to her by certain parties that since the poem had no formal structure it should be considered as prose. Rather then arguing on quality of said poetry/prose she chose to defend its position as a poem by stating Rules are made to be broken. Huh? How does an overused cliche change what something is? Under the same logic one could declare that a scarecrow was a shoehorn because rules are made to be broken. I'm no master of algebraic equations but truisms do not make 2+2=5 and are not acceptable substitutes for logical argument.

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