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Author Topic:   Proposed Rules for Debates
NoNukes
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Message 17 of 44 (722679)
03-24-2014 9:05 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by lokiare
03-21-2014 8:32 AM


"shotgun fallacy"
Making stuff up now, are we?
Providing too many arguments is not a fallacy. And in a written debate, there is always an opportunity to respond over time. This is not like a timed debate where it is possible to chew up the time of the other side.
When there is lots of evidence for one side, and none for the other, the debate is going to look one sided. That cannot be helped.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 20 of 44 (722693)
03-24-2014 10:10 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by Faith
03-24-2014 10:04 AM


Shotgun argumentation may be a problem, but is it a logical fallacy?
Only if we count the victor as the person with the most text or who gets the last word. But there is nothing fallacious about offering a large number of valid arguments and evidence.
And that is particularly true if the other side claims you have no evidence.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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