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Old 01-10-2008, 11:59 AM   #1
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Person A says they are correct and has the opposite position of Person B. Only one of them is right.

classicman says he is intelligent, coherent, and grounded in reality and that I am not. I say the same thing about him. We can't both be correct.

I see no fallacy.
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Old 01-10-2008, 12:16 PM   #2
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Person A says they are correct and has the opposite position of Person B. Only one of them is right.

classicman says he is intelligent, coherent, and grounded in reality and that I am not. I say the same thing about him. We can't both be correct.

I see no fallacy.
That's your problem Radar - and don't read this as an attack, just an observation. You refuse to acknowledge that two people can sit down look at the same information and come to different conclusions. We're not talking about mathematics. People have different life experiences, different specialized knowledge, and different priorities that they have to sift incoming information through. That makes it very possible for two intelligent, coherent, and grounded individuals to come to different conclusion based on identical input.

IF you will recognize that life isn't as black and white, right and wrong, smart or stupid as you have portrayed it you'll achieve a couple of things, not the least of which is you'll have a better chance of presenting your case in such a way that it might actually teach the other person a thing or two, thus swaying them to your way of thinking.
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Old 01-11-2008, 10:11 AM   #3
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...two people can sit down look at the same information and come to different conclusions. ....
Without either of them being stupid, wrong, intellectually dishonest, etc.
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Old 01-11-2008, 10:14 AM   #4
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Without either of them being stupid, wrong, intellectually dishonest, etc.
Well except for Radar and tw...




Kidding already!!!
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