Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Fallacies, Fallacies, Everywhere

My best friend the inter-net has some nice examples of the fallacy of equivocation. Here are two good ones:
All jackasses have long ears.
Karl is a jackass.
Therefore, Karl has long ears.
Margarine is better than nothing.
Nothing is better than butter.
Therefore margarine is better than butter.
Also, here's one of the best mashups out there:

(December 4th, from DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album)

And finally, speaking of non sequiturs, here's a cute cat picture:

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Wait, we weren't just speaking of non sequit--Oh. I see what you did there.

Clever.

1 comment:

Abi said...

Gotta love non sequiturs! Especially when they involve tautologies! LOL

I like the jackass arg! XD muahaha!