An appeal to authority, for examples, as Paul K said, is to state that the earth is 6,000 years old because the bible says so, but if the bible is true, then I don't care that it's a fallacy.
How many fallacies do you want to pack into one sentence, mikey? You lot haven't even sorted argument from authority, yet you want to throw in circular reasoning to boot?
Even if my argument was false, my conclusion could still be accidentally correct.
And therefor unreliable. That is the problem with logical fallacies: they are not good tactics to use in a debate since they fall apart.
because if something is true, it is completely irrelevant to me that it is illogical.
Ah, good old religious "trvth". Useless in the real world.
Now, I'm going to point something out to you; let's see if you catch it. Ready?
I for one don't recall defending a fallacy?
I would defend a fallacy though
So it is not entirely illogical to favour a fallacy
i.e. I knew it was true despite being unsound
Now can you see why debating religionists is sometimes a fruitless effort? You don't give a shit how unreasonable or illogical you are as long as what you tell yourself makes you feel good.
"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square
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