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- From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
- Subject: Re: Taxing & Spending
- Message-ID: <SLAGLE.93Jan21170557@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com
- In-reply-to: mrh@centerline.com's message of 18 Jan 1993 20:59:23 GMT
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- Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:05:57
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- In article <1jf5nbINNpsv@armory.centerline.com>, mrh@centerline.com (Mike Huben) writes:
-
- > I love the way libertarians are so inconsistant with each other
- > and even themselves.
-
- Since you are so familiar with applied logic, and so fond of the
- Socratic method, perhaps you will favor us with an answer to some
- questions:
-
- What species of fallacious reasoning attempts to generalize from
- the specific actions of particular individual members of a group
- to an implication that all members of that group share a
- proclivity to act in such a manner?
-
- Which one is it that implies that a property of all members of
- a group is peculiar to a particular subset group?
-
- (Just the formal classifications of the fallacies is all that we
- require; your statement above will suffice as a fine compound
- example of both. You clearly qualify for a good grade in economy
- of exemplary exposition.)
-
- For extra credit, what general category of verbal fallacy
- subsumes both of the above subcategories? (Hint: This one is far
- and away the most popular of all the fallacies among the Usenet
- contributors.)
-
- =Mark
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