Thanks to the magic of the Wacom tablet I purchased from Dave, and some excellent Paint.NET skills, I present to you my very first web comic! It illustrates the ad hoc logical fallacy. (Click on it so you can actually read the text; I'll fix that stupid problem in future comics.)
The ad hoc fallacy is committed when you attribute special reasoning in certain situations that you neglected to use in a similar situation in order to preserve your previously held hypothesis. While this example isn't explicit, the implicit hypothesis is that generosity is a trait only attributable to Democrats. When a Republican shows signs of generosity, it is assumed that he must be doing it for selfish reasons.
I don't know about you, but I think that it's nice to be able to formalize other people's bullshit.
1 comment:
The image isnt showing up for me. :(
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