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Old 04-11-2019, 03:01 PM   #2235
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
That was not a straw man. It's a reductio ad absurdum, if anything. You have now failed philosophy 101.
It's a straw man (fallacious reductios are a subset of the straw man fallacy).

Your reductio is fallacious because it is question begging - you assume that somehow a museum extolling Hitler's virtues would be legal - which is almost assuredly untrue. You then use this inappropriate assumption as the reductio's cudgel.

You basically laundered your fallacious reasoning.

I don't think you failed Phil 101, but you definitely aced sophistry 101.
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