I’ve been in a groove with issues of informal logic, so I’ll discuss another debating ruse. I call it The Big Pretense. Suppose Donny Dogma is completely devoted to some system of beliefs, say, a political ideology. Proposition P is central to that ideology, so Donny must affirm P, given his ideological devotion. But the truth of P is questionable, which his friend Phil notes.
The Big Pretense
The Big Pretense
The Big Pretense
I’ve been in a groove with issues of informal logic, so I’ll discuss another debating ruse. I call it The Big Pretense. Suppose Donny Dogma is completely devoted to some system of beliefs, say, a political ideology. Proposition P is central to that ideology, so Donny must affirm P, given his ideological devotion. But the truth of P is questionable, which his friend Phil notes.