A Few Updates …

My radio interview with Come Receive the Light on One Flew Over the Onion Dome has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 12th.

From Evangelical Outpost, here’s a couple additions to Sunday’s Comments post:

Red Herring — The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent. Thus, a “red herring” argument is one which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy. This frequently occurs during debates when there is an at least implicit topic, yet it is easy to lose track of it. By extension, it applies to any argument in which the premisses are logically irrelevant to the conclusion.

Weak analogy — An analogy which takes the form: A is like B; B has property P ;Therefore, A has property P (Where the analogy between A and B is weak.) Analogies are neither true nor false, instead they come in degrees from near identity to extreme dissimilarity.