Friday Fallacy (Number 1)

Today's Friday Fallacy will discuss the "Gambler's Fallacy"

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/gamblers-fallacy.html

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• fallacy
• logic
• informal
• thinking
• philosopher
• gamblers
• gambler's
• freethought

[BaKer312213]

STOUT, lovely

[DrixDZanth]

Yeah, I love beers ALMOST as much as I love wine.

[Cojaxod]

You should do the burden of proof fallacy its my favorite

[DrixDZanth]

Sure thing, Cojax.

[bdf2718]

How about the fallacy that you cannot prove something is impossible? In general, you can't. But sometimes you can. If the definition of a concept or thing leads to self-contradiction, that concept or thing is impossible.

You cannot find two integers whose ratio is the square root of two. You cannot draw a square triangle.

Oh and the phrase "you can never say that something is impossible" can be reworded as "it is impossible to say that something is impossible" - paradox.

[yikeswood]

the first beer? hey i wonder what happens when this firments? it does so you have identified what it does what makes it better if its done over here or over there?

[lennyhipp]

false dilemma fallacy is my favorite:

If not A, then B... assuming there's only two possible scenarios, and disproving one automatically proves the other.

[lennyhipp]

actually, you have to assume that the die is fairly balanced to have a 1:6 chance!

46,656 isn't astronomically high! :)

Flipping a coin and having it land heads 100 times in a row... not THAT's astronomical! :))

[lennyhipp]

I love the idea of this "Friday Fallacy". Dont know why nobody thought of it before. Looking forward to the next one already.

[yikeswood]

right and because it is a dice you roll it...because it is a machine you advance it if the die needs a proper table or surface it becomes itself... to use a die is to have a relationship with the die what it needs is felt. what the board needs is a dice.