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Fallacies that become fashion are still fallacies

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Fallacies that become fashion are still fallacies

G.K. Chesterton was right pointing out that popularity doesn't make a wrong, right.

Shane Vander Hart
May 16, 2023
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I really think that British writer and apologist G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) could look into the future when he said the following:

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

He was so prescient. People judge truth claims based on whether they conform with societal norms.

It is amazing how many …

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