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Monday, July 24, 2006

Newsflash - WTF? accepted as legitimate fallacy.

It's official (on this blog anyway). WTF? is a legitimate fallacy in its own right, simply due to its increasing utility. We don't expect to see it picked up in any literature by other authors on informal logic and errors in reasoning, but what would they know anyway... Examples and definitions posted above.

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