I disagree that Kaj_Sotala’s post applies. Just because you label something a fallacy doesn’t make it a fallacy. Googling the “radio fallacy” turns up this thread and nothing else related.
This ‘radio fallacy argument’ wants to place Harry’s argument into the reference class of ‘fallacies’ and has nothing but a clever label and bad analogy as that basis.
I agree (I think), but I was mainly applying the Kaj_Sotala article to the quoted part of endoself’s post, not so much RichardChappell’s argument, since the quoted part is such a common occurrence.
I disagree that Kaj_Sotala’s post applies. Just because you label something a fallacy doesn’t make it a fallacy. Googling the “radio fallacy” turns up this thread and nothing else related.
This ‘radio fallacy argument’ wants to place Harry’s argument into the reference class of ‘fallacies’ and has nothing but a clever label and bad analogy as that basis.
I agree (I think), but I was mainly applying the Kaj_Sotala article to the quoted part of endoself’s post, not so much RichardChappell’s argument, since the quoted part is such a common occurrence.
Can you point out why the analogy is bad?