GA-ZEE-BO!
Contributed by my wife:
"I like a man with a big purple walrus."
"The ability to destroy a baby Sarlaac is insignificant next to the power of the Force!" - spoken by Lakhem Ch'tobosh, Quixotic Jedi
"So let me get this straight. This thing is half-bear and half-owl. Let's call it a bowl (pronounced bowel)!" - spoken by an adventurer after his first triumphant encounter with an owlbear
At the bottom of the world, the decay of man's time has begun.
I'm sure that woman behind the counter has a flamethrower.
ahhh, first whack then eat...now I get it.
*Whacks other losers with backstabbing rubber chicken*
Forget about those corpses for now and give Carol the cheese basket.
and when the wombat comes, he will find me gone
Remember, pillage then burn.
Here we go again.
well, in case your interested, (this is on my mind all the time):
Formal fallacies are arguments that are fallacious due to an error in their form or technical structure.
• Appeal to probability: because something could happen, it is inevitable that it will happen
• Argument from fallacy: if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious, then the conclusion must necessarily be false
• Bare assertion fallacy: premise in an argument is assumed to be true purely because it says that it is true.
• Base rate fallacy
• Conjunction fallacy
• Correlative based fallacies
• Denying the correlative: where attempts are made at introducing alternatives where there are none
• Suppressed correlative
• Fallacy of necessity: a degree of unwarranted necessity is placed in the conclusion based on the necessity of one or more of its premises
• False dilemma ("false dichotomy"): where two alternative statements are held to be the only possible options, when in reality there are several
• If-by-whiskey
• Homunculus fallacy
• Masked man fallacy: the substitution of identical designators in a true statement can lead to a false one
• Naturalistic fallacy
• Nirvana fallacy
• Negative proof fallacy: that because a premise cannot be proven true, that premise must be false
• Package-deal fallacy
[edit] Propositional fallacies
• Affirming a disjunct: concluded that one logical disjunction must be false because the other disjunct is true.
• Affirming the consequent: the antecedent in an indicative conditional is claimed to be true because the consequent is true. Has the form if A, then B; B, therefore A
• Denying the antecedent: the consequent in an indicative conditional is claimed to be false because the antecedent is false; if A, then B; not A, therefore not B
[edit] Quantificational fallacies
• Existential fallacy: an argument has two universal premises and a particular conclusion, but the premises do not establish the truth of the conclusion
• Illicit conversion: the invalid conclusion that because a statement is true, the inverse must be as well
• Proof by example
[edit] Formal syllogistic fallacies
Syllogistic fallacies are logical fallacies that occur in syllogisms.
• Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
• Fallacy of exclusive premises: a categorical syllogism that is invalid because both of its premises are negative
• Fallacy of four terms: a categorical syllogism has four terms
• Illicit major: a categorical syllogism that is invalid because its major term is undistributed in the major premise but distributed in the conclusion
• Illicit minor: a categorical syllogism that is invalid because its minor term is undistributed in the minor premise but distributed in the conclusion.
• Fallacy of the undistributed middle: the middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed
• Categorical syllogism: an argument with a positive conclusion, but one or two negative premises
[edit] Informal fallacies
Informal fallacies are arguments that are fallacious for reasons other than structural ("formal") flaws.
• Argument from repetition (argumentum ad nauseam)
• Appeal to ridicule: a specific type of appeal to emotion where an argument is won by presenting the opponent's argument in a way that makes it appear ridiculous
• Argument from ignorance ("appeal to ignorance")
• Begging the question ("petitio principii"): where the conclusion of an argument is implicitly or explicitly assumed in one of the premises
• Burden of proof
• Circular cause and consequence
• Continuum fallacy (fallacy of the beard)
• Equivocation
• Fallacies of distribution
• Division: where one reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true of all or some of its parts
• Ecological fallacy
• Fallacy of many questions (complex question, fallacy of presupposition, loaded question, plurium interrogationum)
• Fallacy of the single cause
• Historian's fallacy
• False attribution
• Fallacy of quoting out of context
• False compromise/middle ground
• Gambler's fallacy: the incorrect belief that the likelihood of a random event can be affected by or predicted from other, independent events
• Incomplete comparison
• Inconsistent comparison
• Loki's Wager
• Lump of labour fallacy (fallacy of labour scarcity, zero-sum fallacy)
• No true Scotsman
• Perfect solution fallacy: where an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it was implemented
• Post hoc ergo propter hoc
• Proof by verbosity (argumentum verbosium)
• Regression fallacy
• Reification (hypostatization)
• Retrospective determinism (it happened so it was bound to)
• Special pleading: where a proponent of a position attempts to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule or principle without justifying the exemption
• Suppressed correlative: an argument which tries to redefine a correlative (two mutually exclusive options) so that one alternative encompasses the other, thus making one alternative impossible
• Sunk cost fallacy
• Wrong direction
[edit] Faulty generalizations
• Accident (fallacy): when an exception to the generalization is ignored
• Cherry picking
• Composition: where one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some (or even every) part of the whole
• Dicto simpliciter
• Converse accident (a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter): when an exception to a generalization is wrongly called for
• False analogy
• Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, leaping to a conclusion, hasty induction, secundum quid)
• Loki's Wager: insistence that because a concept cannot be clearly defined, it cannot be discussed
• Misleading vividness
• Overwhelming exception
• Spotlight fallacy
[edit] Red herring fallacies
A red herring is an argument, given in response to another argument, which does not address the original issue. See also irrelevant conclusion
• Ad hominem: attacking the personal instead of the argument
• Argumentum ad baculum ("appeal to force", "appeal to the stick"): where an argument is won through coercion or threats of force towards an opposing party
• Argumentum ad populum ("appeal to belief", "appeal to the majority", "appeal to the people"): where a proposition is claimed to be true solely because many people believe it to be true
• Association fallacy & Guilt by association
• Appeal to authority: where an assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it
• Appeal to consequences: a specific type of appeal to emotion where an argument concludes a premise is either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences for a particular party
• Appeal to emotion: where an argument is won due to the manipulation of emotions, rather than the use of valid reasoning
• Appeal to fear: a specific type of appeal to emotion where an argument is won by increasing fear and prejudice towards the opposing side
• Wishful thinking: a specific type of appeal to emotion where a decision is made according to what might be pleasing to imagine, rather than according to evidence or reason
• Appeal to spite: a specific type of appeal to emotion where an argument is won through exploiting people's bitterness or spite towards an opposing party
• Appeal to flattery: a specific type of appeal to emotion where an argument is won due to the use of flattery to gather support
• Appeal to motive: where a premise is dismissed, by calling into question the motives of its proposer
• Appeal to novelty: where a proposal is claimed to be superior or better solely because it is new or modern
• Appeal to poverty (argumentum ad lazarum)
• Appeal to wealth (argumentum ad crumenam)
• Argument from silence (argumentum ex silentio)
• Appeal to tradition: where a thesis is deemed correct on the basis that it has a long standing tradition behind it
• Genetic fallacy
• Judgmental language
• Poisoning the well
• Straw man argument
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Dang it. I knew we should have sent the fighter in first! I hate scouting.
I kick the kobold.
Is my GPS getting annoyed with me? I swear when the voice says, "Recalculating", it could be followed by ..."you stupid idiot."
I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat,it Comes out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow with plenty of precision with a back beat narrow and hard to master...
sometimes rewriting my to do list makes me just want to weep. ugh.
SoW plz
Three years of gaming compressed succinctly.
hehe
Luke, I'm your son!
I am my own grandpa
Dead men tell no tales!
I like flame wars
Rinse and repeat as needed
The tricky parts of snow removal apparently include how to stay dry while in the midst of it. And now I have achieved...abject failure.
They got a message from the action man,Im happy, hope youre happy too
I've loved all, I've needed love,sordid details following...
snow removal; lol the sun does that just fine; dont give yourself a heart attack.
Move forward was my friend's only cry
Tofurkey.
Apparently I have not only action fingers, but action noses as well. Interesting.
homid galliard glasswalker :)
can't touch this.
On the other hand...
you have different fingers.
Refresh, load gun, shoot computer run outside screaming at the moon.....
