Re: fallacies.

From: "Dawn DelliSanti" <CREEDGIRLL@AOL.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Thu
9 Aug 2001 21:50:56 EDT

In a message dated 8/9/01 7:06:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
creed7m3live@COLUMBUS.RR.COM writes:

Kevin,
By the definition of fallacy, I don't feel that it was the proper word
to use.
Nothing that I stated was intentional deception. Rather it was relaying
what I heard about MS and thier OSes.

fal·la·cy (fl-s)
n. pl. fal·la·cies
A false notion.
A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
The quality of being deceptive.

2. (Logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive
of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.

I don't believe that fallacies are always based upon intentional deception.
You will see this if you look at the other definitions of the word.