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by throwaway892238 1420 days ago
If a fallacy is wrong, wouldn't a fallacy fallacy be right
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Not at all. You are commiting the fallacy fallacy fallacy: incorrect reasoning about fallacies above first order.
Something is probably whooshing over my head here.

The fallacy fallacy is when you argue a conclusion must be false because of a fallacy in how it was reached.

If a blind person told you that they believed that the sky is blue because someone told them it is, would you respond that that's argumentum ad verecundiam and therefore the sky is not blue?