top | item 28936114 (no title) fighterpilot | 4 years ago You're arguing that tests for intellectual ability aren't perfect, and they're therefore useless. This is a bad argument. discuss order hn newest politician|4 years ago It's the same argument as for eliminating TAG programs: that no one should be accelerated because not everyone is accelerated.This seems like a distressingly common construction. Is it a logical fallacy? Does it have a name? cutemonster|4 years ago > Does it have a name?The word "jealousy" comes to my mindMaybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards EEBio|4 years ago False dillema or false dichotomy.[0]These arguments are built on the apparent either-or black-and-white setup, while in the reality, a range of possibilities exists.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
politician|4 years ago It's the same argument as for eliminating TAG programs: that no one should be accelerated because not everyone is accelerated.This seems like a distressingly common construction. Is it a logical fallacy? Does it have a name? cutemonster|4 years ago > Does it have a name?The word "jealousy" comes to my mindMaybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards EEBio|4 years ago False dillema or false dichotomy.[0]These arguments are built on the apparent either-or black-and-white setup, while in the reality, a range of possibilities exists.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
cutemonster|4 years ago > Does it have a name?The word "jealousy" comes to my mindMaybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards
EEBio|4 years ago False dillema or false dichotomy.[0]These arguments are built on the apparent either-or black-and-white setup, while in the reality, a range of possibilities exists.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
politician|4 years ago
This seems like a distressingly common construction. Is it a logical fallacy? Does it have a name?
cutemonster|4 years ago
The word "jealousy" comes to my mind
Maybe sometimes feelings, not logic underlies the arguments? And any logics was made up afterwards
EEBio|4 years ago
These arguments are built on the apparent either-or black-and-white setup, while in the reality, a range of possibilities exists.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma