Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6776679" data-attributes="member: 16814">That's a fallacy of composition, there.  Where, if one thing is X, all things must also be X.  I made an error in one thing, which I admitted to and apologized for, and you therefore infer that I must be wrong about all similar things. Fallacy of illicit transference.  It's still an informal fallacy, because it doesn't automatically mean your conclusion is wrong like a formal fallacy does, but it means that you have no support for your conclusion.  (Frex, I might still be entirely wrong on everything, but your assertion that since I was wrong once means I'm likely wrong overall is false.) Doesn't really help you out.  You got a few of your fallacy call outs right, but you still missed most.But let's say that your reasoning is correct.  That would mean that I merely have to show you wrong in one case to say that you're wrong on all similar cases. I'm pretty sure you don't wouldn't want that to be true, because it would be trivial to show (not that I think you'd ever agree that you made a mistake, of course).Do the work for fallacies -- show where it exists.  I try to follow that rule to keep me straight and avoid just hurling words.  I still make mistakes, sure, but not nearly as often.</blockquote>