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This line of reasoning is itself a fallacy. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/fallfall.html



Furthermore there are other forms of reasoning than pure deduction. If you allow probabilistic inference, which is how humans generally operate intuitively, many deductive fallacies turn into probabilistic theorems.




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