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		ultramundane8 on Oct 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to... I feel like the distinction between formal and informal fallacies negates the assertion that "tu quoque" would be in an incorrect context here. I may definitely be wrong but that's my current understanding.

rayiner on Oct 17, 2012 [–]

The formal fallacies are errors in deductive reasoning. The informal fallacies are errors in inductive (statistical) reasoning. Bezos's argument is neither.

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