Re: Coloring of a map

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:50:45 +0100

Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> says...

>Traditional logic is two-valued. You have either true or
>false. I don't think that such logic applies to all situations
>in the real world. I suppose that's a point that one has
>to take into consideration.

Nothing you wrote above changes the fact that you have been
engaging in a logical fallacy that is so well-known that it
is listed in the encyclopedia:
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy

It's a fallacy. It's an invalid argument. It is that which departs
from being logical. It's wrong-headed. It makes you look like a fool
every time you use it. It proves nothing. It wastes the reader's
time with statements that have no real content. Stop it. Don't use
the argument from silence ever again. Drop it from your bag of
debating tricks. It does not work anymore. Don't make excuses or
rationalizations - just stop doing it.

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