Friday, February 6, 2009

Argument from volume is a tactic employed in online forum debates. Basically a poster, trying to prove a point, submits a large volume of information in a short span of time (usually in the form of hyperlinks and usually from a resource pool that existed before the debate occurred.) This is done in order to overwhelm an opponent. Because the poster's opponent cannot address such a large volume of information in a short time the poster is able to make the claim that his opponent is unable to formulate a response to the post because his position on the issue is superior.
 Obviously this is a logical fallacy and, as a countermeasure against this tactic, I decided to address the resources directly. In this blog I will make counter-arguments to groups of resources in their entirety. I imagine this will be a somewhat tedious effort but it should be interesting none the less.

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