OhNoYouDont said:
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your underlying points. I agree that saying "this is guilty of X fallacy" without offering an explanation of how it falls into that fallacy is certainly not an appropriate rebuttal. I do also agree that if you're making various points to support some contention, merely because one point fails does not render your other points obsolete (or false by association). The difference in my statement is that I'm talking about when you're making a deductive argument and one of your premises is false. Under this particular scenario, the rest of the argument becomes irrelevant since it fails the test of soundness. This is because in order for a deductive argument to be valid and sound leading to a true conclusion, all of its premises must be true. |
That's true of deductive arguments but not of inductive arguments.