(How) You Fail At Thinking!: The False Dilemma! (Argumentum Falsum Dilemma)

The false dilemma (Argumentum falsum dilemma), also somewhat erroneously referred to as the false dichotomy (it can be more than just a dichotomy = 2 alternatives), is a fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. This video will discuss this fallacy.
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Sources and links for further reading:
Copi, Irving M., Carl Cohen, and Victor Rodych. 1998. Introduction to Logic. London: Pearson Education.
Hansen, Hans, "Fallacies", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition) Edward N. Zalta (ed.), plato.stanford...
Hurley, Patrick J. 2000. A Concise Introduction to Logic, 7th ed. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth. Lunsford, Andrea A., and John J. Ruszkiewicz. 2016. Everything’s an Argument, 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s.
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[@beepboop204]

dude, you could do a whole critical thinking series touching on some of the "interesting" medieval lines of thinking, philosophy to common sense. both the East and West still have some "interesting" lines of thinking, and ironically, a lot of left-wing and right-wing people come around to the exact same problematic assumptions about relativism, objectivity, and humanity in general. anyway, back to my bong 😛

[@theculturedjinni]

@@beepboop204 👍 Heh, I might actually do something similar about Maturidi (Famous mulslim theologian/thinker) and his arguments against soliphism and knowledge relativism with regard to debating neo-sophists (the philosophical tradition, not bad deceiving arguments generally).

[@beepboop204]

@@theculturedjinni i think the more you can point out how all the medieval "religions" (like Christendom or Islamic world) basically had access to the same Greek and Latin texts, the better. i mean if we toss in some semantic languages, we can really see how all these people were sourcing the same materials 😅

[@theculturedjinni]

@@beepboop204 Oh for sure, Maturidi for example constantly referenced Greek philosophy in his works.

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