When I took a course on logic in the late '80s I dug through articles in Rolling Stone magazine to demonstrate fallacies. It would be so much easier now to pick from the simple examples provided by Republican politicians.
When I took a course on logic in the late '80s I dug through articles in Rolling Stone magazine to demonstrate fallacies. It would be so much easier now to pick from the simple examples provided by Republican politicians.
For example, Lindsey Graham’s fallacy of equivocation in fulminating that Trump was not some spy, as though being charged under the espionage act means you’re accused of committing espionage as commonly understood. This from a guy who served in the USAF JAG Corps.
Gym Jordan did false equivalence in going on about a Supreme Court decision about the President’s classification authority when all of the charges pertain to acts and omissions over a year after Trump ceased being president (the exact date and time of that ceasing is clearly stated in the indictment).
Then there are all the false equivalencies and ad hominem animadversions against Bill Clinton for his sock drawer, Hillary for her e-mails, “The Biden Crime Family,” boxes in Chinatown and God knows what else.
When I took a course on logic in the late '80s I dug through articles in Rolling Stone magazine to demonstrate fallacies. It would be so much easier now to pick from the simple examples provided by Republican politicians.
For example, Lindsey Graham’s fallacy of equivocation in fulminating that Trump was not some spy, as though being charged under the espionage act means you’re accused of committing espionage as commonly understood. This from a guy who served in the USAF JAG Corps.
Gym Jordan did false equivalence in going on about a Supreme Court decision about the President’s classification authority when all of the charges pertain to acts and omissions over a year after Trump ceased being president (the exact date and time of that ceasing is clearly stated in the indictment).
Then there are all the false equivalencies and ad hominem animadversions against Bill Clinton for his sock drawer, Hillary for her e-mails, “The Biden Crime Family,” boxes in Chinatown and God knows what else.
They both know better. They are using emotionally loaded (and inaccurate) terminology and Gym’s is adding reductio ad absurdum.