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To: zonder who wrote (36553)	6/14/2005 11:49:55 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

"You make an allegation, you support it. It is not MY DUTY to prove you wrong." It is if you ASSERT that Bill is wrong simply because he hasn't absolutely proven his assertion to be true. That's the fallacy you employed - that because something isn't known or proven to be true, it must be false - argumentum ad ignorantiam - argument from ignorance. Had you said something to the effect of "I suspect that is not true, but can't prove it either way. Can you?", then your position would be reasonable and I would never have challenged you on it. Instead, you insisted, without proof, that what Bill said was false simply because he hadn't proven to your satisfaction that it was true. That, my dear zonder, is not logical. The first time you said it, one could dismiss it as a simple logical error, but you held to it and repeated it incessantly, which makes it an argumentative fallacy seemingly employed as a "cute" rhetorical device. Now you may have the last word, however nonsensical. Arguing with you about arguing with you is an endless circle and a waste of time.