http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/28/25-reasons-people-believe-weird-things/ A web site by Joshua Sowin that addresses culture, books, technology, ecology, religion, and other topics. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/28/25-reasons-people-believe-weird-things/#comment-68886 Jordan Buckley Sun, 04 May 2008 00:08:16 +0000 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/28/25-reasons-people-believe-weird-things/#comment-68886 These are helpful. Reductio ad absurdum, however, is a valid form of argument, as long as there are no fallacies in the logic. Those examples you give are false because the conclusions do not follow from the premise, not because they are reductio ad absurdum arguments. These are helpful. Reductio ad absurdum, however, is a valid form of argument, as long as there are no fallacies in the logic. Those examples you give are false because the conclusions do not follow from the premise, not because they are reductio ad absurdum arguments.

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