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So, by inductive argument, we can deduce the following (if I'm understanding your post correctly).
Most racists are Tea Baggers
Tea Baggers are mostly white.
Only white people are racists.
Wait...isn't that racist in and of itself?
This is a dumb argument from the jump, but you'd fail a logic class with reasoning like that. You went from "mostly" on your second proposition to "only" on your third proposition.
Old time southern Democrats were racists. So, I guess you're trying to say the Teabaggers are too.
okay, I accept that...
Nope--just trying to show you the fallacy of your appeal to belief argument, but then I realized that if you knew what it was, you likely wouldn't use it.
This is a dumb argument from the jump, but you'd fail a logic class with reasoning like that. You went from "mostly" on your second proposition to "only" on your third proposition.
It works for inductive reasoning. Perhaps you were thinking of a syllogism? Either way, it is a fallacy and that is exactly what I was trying to point out.
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