James that’s because you were pursuing philosophical truths. I’m just talking about basic shit.
Tu quoque – I’m glad someone brought up tu quoque. I love that one, and I love saying it to my brother when he texts me something that is a tu quoque fallacy.
I never hear that or any other fallacy talked about on TV.
I wish just once bill maher would say post hoc ergo proper hoc. or tu quoque or ad hominem even. ad nauseum.
we NEED these words in our dialogue in order to quickly highlight the precise flaw in the logic so we can move on.
We do it here adequately, can you imagine how well a professional would fare? Not some netporn underachiever douchebag like me or you.
I’m talking about a bonafide philosopher PRO. How well they could easily pinpoint a fallacy. And not in deconstructive commentaries on commentaries on rorty. I’m talking basic stuff. The way people bicker, from the way people believe things on the news, to the way we justify bullshit every day.
I’m not talking about actual cutting edge stuff, just dime store stuff. How many more ways can I say it?
And it would take a dispassionate person. Someone without an agenda. Too bad it’s not me. Because I have no agenda except this. But I’m not good enough. Anyway stop arguing with me and get out of your ass long enough to admit I’m right. Tu quoque. tu smoque. reification. excluded middle. poisoning the eel, (eel? that can’t be right. See, I suck at this.) reductio ad absurdum, straw man, weak analogy, you too, if by whiskey, special pleading, bulverism, texas sharpshooter, base rate fallacy, backfire effect, semmelweis reflex…
And my favorite, brought to you by your parents, guaranteed, the good old
THOUGHT TERMINATING CLICHÉ.
I could do this all day. Because fallacies are so virulent and everywhere, you’d think we’d develop a way to slap 'em down more efficiently. On any given talk show, or your neighborhood dinner party, it takes like an hour to try and unravel any one of these, and in the process you probably open up three or four new ones. When was the last time you yelled out 'Subadditivity Effect!" at lunch with your brother. NEVER.
SO YOU ASK how this game, philosophy, is played? By fucking applying it to every day life, so we can finally stop walking around acting and talking like apes.