Hi, all. I was browsing the Interubes just now and came across this excellent set of memes called Logical Fallacy Ref. I know a good many threads here on HBA descend into misunderstandings and nastiness because of some of the very things listed there (though we've recently seen a lot of that clear up, thankfully), and I think it would be hilarious and helpful if attaching the appropriate picture to call people out on faulty reasoning became a SOP here. However, I could also see it leading to abuse/misuse and creating unnecessary contention between people. Thoughts?
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Perhaps to avoid contentiousness 'the ref' would have to be 'called in' by a third party to a given argument. Could we rely on people outside a heated debate to be prudent enough to notice the 'fouls'?
(some examples)
Perhaps to avoid contentiousness 'the ref' would have to be 'called in' by a third party to a given argument. Could we rely on people outside a heated debate to be prudent enough to notice the 'fouls'?
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