On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>From the website: "A person's interests and circumstances have no bearing > on the truth or falsity of the claim being made. While a person's interests > will provide them with motives to support certain claims, the claims stand > or fall on their own." > In a strict sense, this is true. But people are inherently intuitive, and intuition goes beyond cut-and-dry logic. In a related connection, see: http://xkcd.com/1132/ It is (or should be) a logical fallacy to hew too strictly to whether a conclusion is based on a logical fallacy. Eric
