The inability to distinguish the validity of a claim from one's personal feelings about the person making the claim is a clear sign of faulty reasoning.
By
dreftymac
on February 16, 2008
Agreed
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Discussion (4)
Everyone is going to hear any statement that they hear through their own set of filters, including past experiences, knowledge, even cultural/sexual/racial norms.
I agree that letting that ones feelings about a person in general being the DECIDING factor in their view of a claim may be a little immature, but inevitably it will play a role (consciously or unconsciously), unless they don't know who the claim is made by.
"Inability" makes this claim true. And, given what I know of you, probably a straw man.
D'A
As Jaime.
On the surface Jamie's comment looks like it is supporting the claim. I would add that the deciding reason for my vote is the word 'faulty', I would have voted yes if the word 'faulty' was replaced with 'lack of' reasoning. Someones reasoning can be sound, they may just chose to ignore it because of the source. Where as D'A and anyone else can choose the critical word as 'inability'