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I am not well versed into how these logical fallacies are supposed to be applied. Everyone is operating with imperfect information, so no implication will ever be 100% logically tight.

For example, using "appeal to authority", it is logically true that just because a group of Fields Medalists think your proof is wrong, does not necessarily mean that your proof is wrong. But in practice, there is a very high chance you are in the wrong.

Logical fallacies are binary, but the world is more stochastic, so I may be wrong, but I think these logical fallacies do not actually apply to reasoning about the real world. They only work when applied to thought experiments.

But I am no philosopher so I do not know for sure.

parent orange_tee 5 years ago

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