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kijin on Feb 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit takes a new direction

> a false fallacy

The philosophy degree in me screams that there's something wrong with that phrase.

showerst on Feb 13, 2012 [–]

That's what I learned it as years ago, in hindsight it is an odd phrase.

Wiki calls them 'Conditional or questionable fallacies', which is a bit less punchy. Do you have a better name?

kijin on Feb 13, 2012 | [–]

Just "fallacy".

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