Submitted by thenousman t3_10py468 in philosophy
Nick_Beard t1_j6mzf1j wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Great Philosophers Are Bad Philosophers by thenousman
>It's easy to just snipe at areas you think others were wrong
This is actually a fallacy called cherry picking, which is ironic because apparently a good philosopher is someone that doesn't use syllogistic or fallacious thinking.
Pretty sure he's strawmanning as well. If you understand the argument to be absurd despite knowing the person who made it is a famed thinker, maybe you don't actually understand the argument all that well?
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