Steve Hollasch
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

I’d have to disagree with this one. One of the weaknesses of a system like Kialo (not insurmountable) is that it can be prone to bias of the majority of the moment, and argument-killing tags like logical fallacies lend themselves to that imbalance, as they can be added (or voted on?) without necessarily being properly applied. What then? A debate about the proper application of “false equivalence”?

Rather, I see the invocation of logical fallacy as just another tool in the debate of ideas, and one in which the provenance of any particular item is as important as for any other argument. Tags would remove provenance, context and subsequent rebuttal, and gain a (perhaps undeserved) superiority above any other arguments raised.

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