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I did try to explain the No True Scotsman fallacy though!

I think I'm going to leave the board. I just can't do anything right here. Goodbye, guys.

Well, I didn't intend for that. It's just on my other message board I go to, there's not time for acknowledgement. Haha. Either you spit out what's wrong, or you're too late and your post is ignored....

I just always talk like this. My friends tease me for it, actually. I just read a lot so I pick up the big words and it's hard for me to drop it since they're good to have when I'm in school and...

I didn't learn these fallacies in university, so I'm not "dragging [my] undergraduate learnin'" into it. I've been debating since I was in like Grade 8, because I find it entertaining although I know...

No, no it doesn't if you're trying to disprove my assertion of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Saying someone can say they're an actor but they'll never be an actor is entirely true, because being an...

No the actor example does not work because like I said, one explicitly needs to have acted to be an actor. Does that not make sense? But to be Christian, one does not have to refrain from condemning...

Disagreeing with your guys' opinion doesn't automatically mean direspect, but Lobelia and I have had this discussion before.

I know it's a celebrity gossip site, but this /is/ the politics section...

I don't debate to be right. I debate to learn. I don't understand why people always get so mad at me. I'm seriously not trying to insult anybody. I'm a Political Science major! This is just what I...

It is still a logical fallacy though. Haha. :P

It's just I debate these things all the time, and just religion is inherently philosophical so I just throw out these arguments because I know I can...

But see, the thing is, this isn't my opinion. It's a rule of logic. I don't know how else to explain it.

I added a 'people' in there that shouldn't have been.

These are just the rules of logic. I didn't make them up. Even if they aren't "real world" applicable, you still can't use them in an argument.

I'm not excusing people at all. All I am saying is it's a LOGICAL FALLACY, i.e. it is ILLOGICAL to say there are /true/ Christians. I DIDN'T MAKE UP THE RULES.

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I didn't make up the rules of logic, people. And I thought you put me on ignore, Lobelia. :rolleyes:

It doesn't matter though. It would be a logical fallacy to say they're not a /true/ Christian, because all you need to do is believe in Jesus to be a "true" Christian. Otherwise it's a logical...

The definition of a Christian is one who believes in Jesus, and that's the only qualifier needed.

To say people aren't true Christians is a logical fallacy. They're Christian if they believe in Jesus, and that's that. Otherwise it's the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy.

Thanks for the heads up! :kiss:

The war isn't illegal, on a technicality, so that defense wouldn't work.

Why do you say that?

I thought that was hilarious, so I looked it up and apparently it was made up by a journalist; he never actually said it. Shame, actually, 'cause I really liked that one! Haha.

:lol: :lol: :lol:!! :rofl:

It doesn't look like the pics are working anymore, but mshovito if you saw them you'd know what we're talking about. She looked ridiculous! Lips are lips, it doesn't matter your ethnicity and I am...

The Lord of the Rings. It's my annual read-through. :nerd:

Regardless, it's really lame to imply that he's somehow connected with Ahamdinejad because they have the same taste in clothes.

I don't want a mascara that lengthens at all, only thickens! My eyelashes are so long that if I don't curly them, sometimes they hit my glasses. And when I do curl them, they hit the top of my eye....