Introduction:
I will be showing you examples of how to not only change your life but change others as well. This will be showing the techniques that have been secretly written and practiced for years. Hypnosis is not staring somebody in the eyes and telling them what to do, it is so much more than that. Imagine the capabilities of mastering social environments, persuasion, and even getting girls!
I do not own these techniques. I have added my own little twist into them to make them just a little bit more interesting and maybe even have a greater impact. Has it ever occurred to you that you could win every argument even if wrong? I hope these techniques will help you as much as they have me.
*Remember, practice, practice, practice
-Ian Brown
Fallacious Arguments
1) Ad Hominem (Argument to The Man):
Attacking the person instead of attacking his argument. For example, "Von Daniken's books about ancient astronauts are worthless because he is a convicted forger and embezzler." (Which is true, but that's not why they're worthless.)
Another example is this syllogism, which alludes to Alan Turing's homosexuality:
Turing thinks machines think.
Turing lies with men.
Therefore, machines don't think.
(Note the equivocation in the use of the word "lies".)
A common form is an attack on sincerity. For example, "How can you argue for vegetarianism when you wear leather shoes?" The two wrongs make a right fallacy is related.
Oddly, the stupidity attack is sometimes reversed. For example, dismissing a comment with "Well, you're just smarter than the rest of us." (In Britain, that might be put as "too clever by half".) This is Dismissal By Differentness. It is related to Not Invented Here and Changing The Subject.
Ad Hominem is not fallacious if the attack goes to the credibility of the argument. For instance, the argument may depend on its presenter's claim that he's an expert. (That is, the Ad Hominem is undermining an Argument from Authority.) Trial judges allow this category of attacks.
What you want to understand here is basically if anybody makes a comment like “well your just stupid” (also involves the genetic fallacy) means they ar---- ATTACKING THE PERSON INSTEAD OF THE ISSUE.
2) Appeal To Complexity:
if the arguer doesn't understand the topic, he concludes that nobody understands it. So, his opinions are as good as anybody's.
Pretty self-explanatory…basically saying that just because one person doesn’t understand it doesn’t mean nobody else does.
3) Appeal To False Authority:
a variation on Appeal To Authority, but the Authority is outside his area of expertise.
For example, "Famous physicist John Taylor studied Uri Geller extensively and found no evidence of trickery or fraud in his feats." Taylor was not qualified to detect trickery or fraud of the kind used by stage magicians. Taylor later admitted Geller had tricked him, but he apparently had not figured out how.
A variation is to appeal to a non-existent authority. For example, someone reading an article by Creationist Dmitri Kuznetsov tried to look up the referenced articles. Some of the articles turned out to be in non-existent journals.
Just because someone is expected to do something does not mean it is always done. Or also can be put to talk about something nonexistent as if it did exist.
