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reply Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:
I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical fallacies that I see
used all the time on 
the D newsgroups:

    https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg

I might just have to order one of those posters. :)

Later,
Brad
Dec 13 2013
parent reply "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 05:45:43 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
 I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical 
 fallacies that I see used all the time on the D newsgroups:

    
 https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg

 I might just have to order one of those posters. :)

 Later,
 Brad
One not on that chart that Walter's particularly fond of is argumentum e silentio (no insult intended =)). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence
Dec 14 2013
parent "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 09:43:39 UTC, Meta wrote:
 On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 05:45:43 UTC, Brad Roberts 
 wrote:
 I stumbled across this today... a great list of logical 
 fallacies that I see used all the time on the D newsgroups:

   
 https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/assets/FallaciesPosterHigherRes.jpg

 I might just have to order one of those posters. :)

 Later,
 Brad
One not on that chart that Walter's particularly fond of is argumentum e silentio (no insult intended =)). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence
Wikipedia doesn't explain it very well. http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/logical fallacies.htm#argumentum ex silentio
Dec 14 2013