The 42 Fallacies on Castanet - Read at your own risk!

[Glacier]

Hello fellow posters. Please comb over this list of fallacies before making any further posts. Thanks.

1. Ad Hominem
2. Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
3. Appeal to Authority
4. Appeal to Belief
5. Appeal to Common Practice
6. Appeal to Consequences of a Belief
7. Appeal to Emotion
8. Appeal to Fear
9. Appeal to Flattery
10. Appeal to Novelty
11. Appeal to Pity
12. Appeal to Popularity
13. Appeal to Ridicule
14. Appeal to Spite
15. Appeal to Tradition
16. Bandwagon
17. Begging the Question
18. Biased Sample
19. Burden of Proof
20. Circumstantial Ad Hominem
21. Composition
22. Confusing Cause and Effect
23. Division
24. False Dilemma
25. Gambler's Fallacy
26. Genetic Fallacy
27. Guilt By Association
28. Hasty Generalization
29. Ignoring A Common Cause
30. Middle Ground
31. Misleading Vividness
32. Personal Attack
33. Poisoning the Well
34. Post Hoc
35. Questionable Cause
36. Red Herring
37. Relativist Fallacy
38. Slippery Slope
39. Special Pleading
40. Spotlight
41. Straw Man
42. Two Wrongs Make A Right

43. The Pathetic Fallacy
44. The False Analogy
45. The Nirvana Fallacy
46. No True Scotsman
47. The Broken Window Fallacy
48. Transposed Conditional

Source: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacie ... html#index

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: It is assumed you have read and understand the list. In doing so, you have now consented to omit all fallacies from future posts (outside of this thread). Failure to do so could result in unknown consequences. Or worse - the heavy hand of Jo.

Anyone who tries to appeal to Emotion, Fear, Flattery, Novelty, Pity, Popularity, Ridicule, Spite, or Tradition could receive an automatic 25,200 second ban. Invoking one of the remaining fallacies could result in additional seconds.

WARNING: This newly imparted knowledge could reduce hostility and stress levels in some posters. For those who have an under-active heart rate, you may need to stop smoking weed or become oblivious to humor to compensate for any reduction in stress.

CAUTION: Using humor in your posts can be missed by the intended targets; the chaotic mayhem that results can be hazardous to your health. Do not, under any circumstances, overlook humour if you have high blood pressure.

DANGER: In the event humour is detected in a post, any assumption that the post does not contain serious subject matter is a fallacy for which you could be banned.

DISCLAIMER: Under no circumstances is the above poster responsible for any injuries incurred when posters engage in activities such as, but not limited to, jumping to conclusions, swallowing their pride, pushing their luck, flying off the handle, and jumping on the bandwagon.

Post at your own risk, and have a good day.

[my2rotties]

Well now I am afraid to even comment on this...

[logicalview]

Glacier, thank you for clearing this up.

(From your source) it is important to recognize that...

A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support. A deductive fallacy is a deductive argument that is invalid (it is such that it could have all true premises and still have a false conclusion). An inductive fallacy is less formal than a deductive fallacy. They are simply "arguments" which appear to be inductive arguments, but the premises do not provided enough support for the conclusion. In such cases, even if the premises were true, the conclusion would not be more likely to be true.

So you have to be very careful when you fallicize.

[Jo]

Okay, now I wish we had a 'like' feature, lol.

[JLives]

Okay, now I wish we had a 'like' feature, lol.

Me too! Let's get Troy on that.

[Advocate]

Well then. That's the end of Castanet.

[Nebula]

Up your hominem. (I think.)

[Glacier]

Okay, now I wish we had a 'like' feature, lol.

If we can learn anything from Facebook, a "like" feature would cause you to go insane because you would be inundated with hundreds of unrelenting requests demands for a "dislike" feature. My guess is at least 5 threads would be started simultaneously to decry Castanet's discriminatory favoritism.

[Catz]

pick me...I wanna be a favorite

[rideforever]

I heard a celebrity saying that the govt doesn't use the dislike function to spy on us. So that means that they definetly use the like function to spy on us.


How many fallacies are in there?

[daria]

Up your hominem. (I think.)

[Glacier]

Fallacy # 43 : The Pathetic Fallacy

The pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations. In other words, it is essentially animism masquerading as science.

While one could be tempted to rationalize the use of this fallacy in everyday conversation, it often used by teachers and professors to educate their pupils in science class. Even worse, it is used on Castanet.

Examples:

1) your computer screen wants to get cleaned.
2) CO2 likes to absorb infrared radiation.
3) The mountains try to block the moisture laden clouds before they reach the Okanagan.
4) Castanet hates me.
5) Steven Lloyd's fence wants you to visit.

People, please stop this nonsense before you hurt the feelings of somebody's fence.

[Bsuds]

:dyinglaughing:

pick me...I wanna be a favorite

That would be a Phallucy..

[rideforever]

Fallacy # 43 : The Pathetic Fallacy

The pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations. In other words, it is essentially animism masquerading as science.

While one could be tempted to rationalize the use of this fallacy in everyday conversation, it often used by teachers and professors to educate their pupils in science class. Even worse, it is used on Castanet.

Examples:

1) your computer screen wants to get cleaned.
2) CO2 likes to absorb infrared radiation.
3) The mountains try to block the moisture laden clouds before they reach the Okanagan.
4) Castanet hates me.
5) Steven Lloyd's fence wants you to visit.

People, please stop this nonsense before you hurt the feelings of somebody's fence.

aha... "even worse, it is used on Castanet"

come on, that's my one of my favorite humourus errors

[westsidebud]

im lost