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Wednesday, 10 March 2010
How to Recognise a Logical Phallusy
The following logic diagram should help skeptics to easily recognise a logical fallacy coming from a bollocks argument: Visit here for further definitions of the common logical fallacies shown in this diagram.
it is hard to improve on your graphic, but may i suggest "pleonasm" along the line of the urethra to illustrate the process of ejaculating the illogical phallusy.
it is hard to improve on your graphic, but may i suggest "pleonasm" along the line of the urethra to illustrate the process of ejaculating the illogical phallusy.
ReplyDeleteGreat work.
ReplyDeleteWe can rate phallacies on how many they score out of 20. I propose a sliding scale from possibly questionable to unquestionably improbable.
A certain popular theory about the environment scores about 12 out of 20....
You appear to have missed my current favourite target: petitio principii
ReplyDeleteRedutio ad absurdum isn't a phallusy. If you slide it out you just might be able to squeeze Tetenerre's petitio principii in.
ReplyDeleteI notice some of the bollocks just goes round in circles! Funny that!
ReplyDeleteYou're having a ball here!
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