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Originally Posted by AcGold
^I watched the whole video. That being said, his premise is logically flawed. The preposition he used was a logical fallacy and shows a fundamental gap in his knowledge. Surely people would massacre an anti-vaxxer video with an illogical premise but since it aligns with the agenda I get insulted for pointing it out.
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1. A preposition is a word in a sentence which describes time or place, such as "in" or "on" or "before" or "against." Since a preposition is a single word, it is extremely difficult for a preposition to be a logical fallacy.
2. Here is the exact wording from the video:
"But essentially, when we hear a hypothesis and think 'yeah, that makes sense,' really what we're saying is 'yeah, that fits with my cognitive biases.' "
You could, I suppose, make a semantic argument that the word he should have chosen instead of 'hypothesis' could have been 'theory,' but that would be a stupid argument, easy to counter by pointing out that "Vaccines are more harmful than beneficial," is quite clearly a hypothesis and not a scientific theory. Also, it's quite clearly a hypothesis many people have decided "makes sense."
You misunderstood what was being said. This is not a flaw with the video.