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Originally Posted by rubecube
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Ooo my favorite. The logical fallacy rebuttal. Bonus points for false identification of it.
The Conservative party political machine has proven astute at negative attack ads in the past (A), therefore I'm prepared to assume that they are still good at it (B), therefore I propose that if they are expanding the current campaign it must be working (C).
I have in no way tried to use B or C to justify A. I am merely assuming A to be correct with no justification.
Did I do that right? I didn't major in Philosophy 101. Man, who do I think who am trying to wade into the great field of logical fallacies. I'll leave it to you guys.