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cutelyaware t1_iz2a5je wrote

Reply to comment by iiioiia in How to solve moral problems with formal logic and probability by beforesunset1010

No, this is the sort of situation that prompted the Jonathon Swift quote >“You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”

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iiioiia t1_iz2aayq wrote

What I like about that quote is rarely does the person playing it care if it is actually true.

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cutelyaware t1_iz2j9g6 wrote

Ad hominin attacks are fallacious too

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iiioiia t1_iz2ks7i wrote

If one is making an assertion about the truth value of a proposition based on criticism of the messenger, but I am making this claim broadly (applicable to all people).

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cutelyaware t1_iz37vpp wrote

In this context it reads as a direct attack, just FYI

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