Logic hates

Feb. 5th, 2008 06:56 pm
j4: (dodecahedron)
[personal profile] j4
Is there a name for the (il)logical pattern that goes something like:
"I believe/think/have experienced X. You believe/think/claim to have experienced not-X. Therefore you are deluding yourself"
?

I've been tagging it as "false consciousness" in my brain, but that's a bit of a misnomer.

Date: 2008-02-06 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigerfort.livejournal.com
Without considering that they might be as likely to be mistaken as you are, or the relative certainties of the observations

or, depending on the type of argument, the possibility that both observations are correct (or indeed incorrect). ("It's sunny outside my window, therefore your claim that it's raining outside yours must be false.")

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