Flawed Logic: The Genetic Fallacy

in #logic8 years ago (edited)

I recently uploaded the second video in an ongoing series on logical fallacies, this time covering the genetic fallacy, in which people make the claim that a source (rightly or wrongly) is unreliable and therefore the argument being made must be invalid.

Hope you all enjoy!

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Great videos. Upvoted and followed.

I do work on the Trivium Method that involved logic.

I will also mention this is related to the Guilt by Association fallacy. The source being unreliable or incorrect is tainting the argument and making it appear invalid as well, due to one being associated to the other.

Take care. Peace.

Aye, thankyou, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I do believe I touched on guilt by association, although not directly by name, I've been planning to dedicate a whole video to that one or perhaps combining it with strawmanning!

"A broken clock is right at least twice a day" could definitely summarize how I'd feel about these biased sources, albeit in the case of TheGuardian I'd probably give it a little more lee-way (other than the filth churned out by Jessica Valenti and her ilk, I'd say their actual news reporting isn't too bad)

Nice Video!

Thankyou, it's only the second one in the series so far, glad you enjoyed it!

I like the video that sum up our politics nowadays.

But I haven't even done a video about strawman arguments yet! ;)

I am looking forward for the next one. but, I like this one it's funny options are present to us. It's appears we have options but actually we are not.