2007/08/04

some valid explanation might be nice_1955

Submitted on August 4, 2007 - 11:19am.


Pаul Mоrrella: "I always thought you were a Republican"

Me: 'Scuse, pliz? Perhaps someone may care to explain what possible relevance 'Republican' (i.e. one assumes the US political party - spit!) might have to me in particular, or Webdiary in general?

And exactly why this toadal® red herring[1] has been dragged in?

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Ref(s):

[1] Red herring:


«The use of the red herring is fallacious because it uses irrelevant material to prevent a conclusion being reached in its absence. If the argument leads in a particular direction because reason and evidence are taking it there, it is not valid to divert it by means of extraneous material, however attractive that new material may be. ... Red herrings are used by those who have a bad case, ... As [the dragger's] intellectual energies begin to fail ... »


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