Fallacy of the Weak

I believe fal­lac­ies tend to be the symp­tom of a weak mind.  But hey! we are all guilty of this once and awhile.  Unless the state­ment comes from a mar­keter, it is typ­i­cally just an inno­cent mis­take.  The pur­pose of this sec­tion is to work out your mind and help you iden­tify flaws in both typ­i­cal and novel argu­ments.  Each week (or more), I will strive to out­line a new fal­lacy com­mon to log­i­cal argu­men­ta­tion.  For this task I will depend on the rich his­tory of philo­soph­i­cal skep­ti­cism.  It is my hope that the study of argu­ment will help iden­tify flaws in cher­ished beliefs, so that they can either be cor­rected or discarded.

He that can­not rea­son is a fool.
He that will not is a bigot.
He that dare not is a slave.
~Andrew Carnegie

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