No. Critical thinking is very important, esp. in an era of "fake news" and false accusations of it. We will never all agree, but we can at least find better ways to express our views. The hope, vain though it may be, is that we can all agree, at least, on *how* to disagree well.
People who are obsessed with logical fallacies suffer from the most severe fallacy: that disagreements are easily resolved. As though everyone secretly agrees, but half the population made a simple logical misstep and arrived at the wrong conclusion.
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it's called dialectical reasoning and it doesn't require you to have a fallacy checkpoint at every other sentence my bud
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My critical thinking prof ~20yrs ago took great pains to point out that the Principle of Charity should take precedence. Without that all this is just smug nitpicking bullshit. I've never heard of it since, which seems telling.
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But they are important. Someone can admit to disagree “just because” but if they’re trying to argue and present their opinions as facts, then they must be aware of the logical fallacies.
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Responses proving you right are a twitter standard it seems.
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Also love how these sorts of people usually only focus on the informal ones? Like those ones are somehow worse?
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Well they usually don't know any formal logic so...
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Beware the fallacy fallacy.
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Ναι σκαπιλιάτα αλλά όταν γράφω εγώ τέτοια κοροϊδεύεις, στον εξιστένσιαλ που είναι φίρμα κοκοκο
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εσύ παρασύρεσαι από κάποιους βερμπαλισμούς. Ο Εξιστένσιαλ έχει μαθηματική σκέψη στην πραγματικότητα
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