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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7931341" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>So, we have to draw all possible positive assumptions to save [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER]'s point? That would be ironic, given that he's more that willing to assume negative things to dismiss other posters, even in the face of repeated attempts to correct course in polite ways. I don't see why we need to treat lowkey with the kids gloves and assume things so his points have some merit when he can't be bothered.</p><p></p><p>But, even taken with your assumptions, the "revealed preference" for Cheetos says nothing at all about the statement on vegetables being false. And, as this "joke" was a lead in to the D&D popularity argument, and those assumptions you've made don't follow that transition, then even if you can imagine a way for the "joke" to be a useful example of reveal preference, it's still useless in the D&D context. This is an example of making one argument using a logical chain and then rapidly switching to a different case and trying to use the same chain of logic. It's the setup to a bait and switch, or a motte and bailey style of argument. Saving the motte argument through helpful assumption making doesn't help the bailey argument.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7931341, member: 16814"] So, we have to draw all possible positive assumptions to save [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER]'s point? That would be ironic, given that he's more that willing to assume negative things to dismiss other posters, even in the face of repeated attempts to correct course in polite ways. I don't see why we need to treat lowkey with the kids gloves and assume things so his points have some merit when he can't be bothered. But, even taken with your assumptions, the "revealed preference" for Cheetos says nothing at all about the statement on vegetables being false. And, as this "joke" was a lead in to the D&D popularity argument, and those assumptions you've made don't follow that transition, then even if you can imagine a way for the "joke" to be a useful example of reveal preference, it's still useless in the D&D context. This is an example of making one argument using a logical chain and then rapidly switching to a different case and trying to use the same chain of logic. It's the setup to a bait and switch, or a motte and bailey style of argument. Saving the motte argument through helpful assumption making doesn't help the bailey argument. [/QUOTE]
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