mommykink@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months agoi hate my wife and i love bug litelemmy.worldimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1610arrow-down140
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minus-squareiAvicenna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoI would say the opposite, it makes more sense to me to apply fallacies to arguments where as to apply it to a debate you probably have to isolate its main arguments and then apply it to those arguments individually
minus-squareZozanolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoFurthermore, debates are not governed by logic. A debate in of itself is a fallacy, in the sense that it is merely a popularity contest. If you can bullshit hard enough, or make the crowd laugh at your jokes about the person you’re debating, you’ve won.
I would say the opposite, it makes more sense to me to apply fallacies to arguments where as to apply it to a debate you probably have to isolate its main arguments and then apply it to those arguments individually
Furthermore, debates are not governed by logic. A debate in of itself is a fallacy, in the sense that it is merely a popularity contest.
If you can bullshit hard enough, or make the crowd laugh at your jokes about the person you’re debating, you’ve won.