On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:26:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > [0] But what the hell. His aside was basically "You're an idiot, therefore > you're usually wrong"; which isn't a fallacy, presuming being usually > wrong is the defining property of being an idiot. The fallacy comes > when you generalise from the average case (usually wrong), to the > specific (wrong in this particular instance), which wasn't the case > here: we went straight from the general case to the specific case > with no claim of connection at all.
Well, except that all of this was in a single paragraph which, according to usual rules of written english, is an indication that the statements are connected. Either that, or bad writing. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
