Archie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 5:35 pm
Nessie, have you emailed a philosophy professor yet?
Given that you invoke "argument from incredulity" so frequently, and given that you have insisted on continuing to do so even after being shown that your interpretation is incorrect based on all available reference sources, I'm afraid we are at an impasse here due to your stubbornness.
Again, here is ChatGPT (from the first page), which is what I tried to used as an arbiter to settle our dispute: "The appeal to incredulity fallacy specifically refers to rejecting an argument
only because it seems hard to believe, without critically assessing the evidence or reasoning provided."
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/personal-incredulity
"personal incredulity
Because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true."
The definitions involve not being able to work out, reason or assess how something could have happened and then concluding the event did not happen.
Germar has published Chemistry of Auschwitz and several other books explaining the reasons for his doubts at great length. If you want to say he's wrong and present counterarguments, fine. But to claim that he rejects the Holocaust ONLY because of personal doubt is absurd.
Rudolf's personal doubt is based on his assessment of the evidence, reasoning based on his knowledge of chemistry and his inability to work out how mass gassings could leave so little residue. That fits with both definitions of the fallacy.
Your lazy and incorrect use of "fallacies" to dismiss revisionist arguments out of hand is a violation of the forum rule against unsupported disagreement and if you continue to do it so brazenly you will be banned. If you want to post here, I need to see substantive engagement from you.
Rudolf is unable to work out, reason or assess, using his knowledge of chemistry, calculations and limited experimentation, how mass gassings could have taken place. He therefore concludes mass gassings did not take place. That makes his doubt seem reasonable to you, and therefore not a fallacy.
You are wrong, because, as Rudolf admits, he may be wrong!!!! Plus, there are others who dispute his findings and all the evidence from the Leichenkellers is that they were used for mass gassings. You cannot therefore be certain, that Rudolf is correct. There are too many good reasons why he is wrong. That is why your reliance on Rudolf is a logical fallacy.
You are desperate for any excuse to disbelieve gassings. You are not so desperate to believe that the Titanic was not sunk by an iceberg, so if an engineer started to claim it was not and all the witnesses lied, and he could not produce evidence as to what did happen, you would dismiss the engineer as wrong. When something is evidenced to have happened, and someone then argues it cannot have happened, logically and evidentially, the argument looses.