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Reply #45 Posted on: February 17, 2010, 10:03:20 am |
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Miky- I assumed they'd invested in a cloud server to hold the plethora of games they host. Such a server, at their provider, has unmetered traffic. That would have been the first thing I did. Rusky- The major fallacy was "you have no idea what goes on internally."
Serp and those concerned- I imagine they are using that technique. If you remember, that's what really set my hat on fire (Fred's outright anti-support for the idea until Sandy made clear they were going to make off with it).
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Reply #47 Posted on: February 17, 2010, 07:24:04 pm |
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Special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves. Essentially, this involves someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. without justifying the exemption.
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- assertion that the opponent lacks the qualifications necessary to comprehend a point of view
Example: I know you think that I should be giving my money to the poor, but you've never been rich before. There are things about wealth that you don't understand.
In this case, You don't work for Yoyo. You don't understand.
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Josh @ Dreamland
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Reply #51 Posted on: February 18, 2010, 07:07:08 am |
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Miky-- Roughly $140 has gone in, $100 has come out. That puts me at as big a loss as Yoyo, percentage wise. XD
Rusky-- Take an upper-level philosophy course; you'd be hard-pressed to find one that won't teach you about fallacies.
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Reply #58 Posted on: February 18, 2010, 09:59:06 pm |
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Suggesting that I don't know everything Sandy and Mark do is not the fallacy; using that to suggest that my claims that they are inefficient are invalid is where the fallacy is.
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