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Title: Help needed, Is this a fallacious extrapolation?
Post by: Main Street on March 07, 2016, 07:14:13 PM
Is this an example of  fallacious extrapolation? if not what is it?

Jack says he saw  Jill drive recklessly the other day, drove too fast down a city street, possibly endangering pedestrians.

Jill says, because you criticise my driving  by claiming that I drove carelessly,  that means you are making the claim that I am a careless person, therefore you are saying I am a careless nurse as well.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Fallacy_of_extrapolation (http://www.conservapedia.com/Fallacy_of_extrapolation)
Title: Re: Help needed, Is this a fallacious extrapolation?
Post by: LeoMc on March 08, 2016, 07:37:26 AM
Some board discussions fallacious extrapolation. Proof that all board members are not logical thinkers.
Title: Re: Help needed, Is this a fallacious extrapolation?
Post by: muppet on March 08, 2016, 09:29:57 AM
Quote from: LeoMc on March 08, 2016, 07:37:26 AM
Some board discussions fallacious extrapolation. Proof that all board members are not logical thinkers.

And if all board members are not logical thinkers, then we can't work out how to log onto the board. Therefore none of us are here.
Title: Re: Help needed, Is this a fallacious extrapolation?
Post by: Hardy on March 08, 2016, 11:47:09 AM
Quote from: muppet on March 08, 2016, 09:29:57 AM
Quote from: LeoMc on March 08, 2016, 07:37:26 AM
Some board discussions fallacious extrapolation. Proof that all board members are not logical thinkers.

And if all board members are not logical thinkers, then we can't work out how to log onto the board. Therefore none of us are here.

Yes (http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7768337)
Title: Re: Help needed, Is this a fallacious extrapolation?
Post by: armaghniac on March 08, 2016, 12:04:39 PM
This is a spectrum

You have
logical extrapolation
fallacious extrapolation
Fearonesque extrapolation