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		gitgud on Sept 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Aristotl – an intuitive logical fallacy l... Looks great. I think everyone should have an understanding of how arguments can be fallacious. But one thing I noticed - going down the fallacy rabbit hole - is that you can find fallacies in almost any written opinion... I think this is because fallacies are somewhat subjective and some fallacies can even oppose each other, so there's no way to avoid them... But that's just my (fallacy-riddled) opinion

thisBrian on Sept 30, 2019 | [–]

Exactly why the fallacy fallacy[0] exists. Just because an argument has a fallacy does not make its conclusion false.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

rr-geil-j on Sept 30, 2019 | [–]

My memory is hazy but I remember reading or hearing somebody say that "at the end of the day, everything is just an appeal to authority."

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