Finding the Flaw
“There are rules to this shit.”
~Shades, Luke Cage (Marvel Netflix)
When it comes to forming arguments and engaging in debate, there are Universal Laws that must be followed in order to produce a valid conceptual landscape. A failure to follow these Laws results in a Fallacy, which ultimately invalidates the entire argument from which it stems. The problem with that should be obvious. And invalid argument cannot possibly apply to anything. The point becomes moot. And so it is that one must always be on the lookout for fallacies. {One must not always call them out.}
Correcting the Fallacy
Clint Eastwood -Gorillaz
“Rhythm: You have it or you don’t; that’s a fallacy.”
There are actually several types of fallacies that rear their heads in arguments, and they happen all the time. The problem of course is that they sound good and, so far as they are consistent with our individual narratives, can be very easy and rather convenient to accept at face value for want of a closer inspection. And that’s basically how it works. In the most general sense, people do not intentionally use and cite fallacies in personal discussion. Likewise, people do not like the dissonance that comes with the realization of a fallacy. It can be psychologically painful. And that, I pose, is a great source of many problems within dialectics and debates across the ideological spectrum.
Refining the Argument
” Work it Harder. Make it Better, Do it Faster, Makes us Stronger.”
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger -Daft Punk
Having the ability to recognize a fallacy, with practice, grants one the ability to sort them out and restructure your conceptual layout. It can be an arduous process. It requires a person to go, step by step, and examine everything he or she believes at the most core level and consider the reasons for and ramifications of such belief. There are natural conclusions to everything if you follow the trail far enough. The facts are the most important thing.