Logical Fallacies [Remedial education for Nessie]

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Nazgul wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:39 am
Nessie wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 8:05 am there was no Nazi department responsible for resettlement.
There was Schmelt und Todt organizations mandate to relocate Jews for labour under SS. Resettlement is your fiction not the reality.
Where is your evidence of how many Jews in those camps in 1945?

To stay on topic, logically, since you cannot evidence millions of Jews still alive in 1944 and liberated in 1945, that is circumstantial evidence which supports the mass murder evidence.
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Nessie wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:24 pm
Nazgul wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:39 am
Nessie wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 8:05 am there was no Nazi department responsible for resettlement.
There was Schmelt und Todt organizations mandate to relocate Jews for labour under SS. Resettlement is your fiction not the reality.
Where is your evidence of how many Jews in those camps in 1945?

To stay on topic, logically, since you cannot evidence millions of Jews still alive in 1944 and liberated in 1945, that is circumstantial evidence which supports the mass murder evidence.
Not being reportable present alive is necessarily the case if mass-killing occurred. But it is not evidence FOR Mass-killing. The absence simply doesn't contradict the thesis neither. Killing millions would however produce remains of millions of people among evidence that should be there. Where are there?
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Nessie wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:24 pm Where is your evidence of how many Jews in those camps in 1945?

To stay on topic, logically, since you cannot evidence millions of Jews still alive in 1944 and liberated in 1945, that is circumstantial evidence which supports the mass murder evidence.
The existence of a large number of Jewish camps in 1944 implies that they were full of Jews, just as the existence of houses, factories and schools implies people, workers and students. I have said many times that the term "Liberated" has no meaning as the workers simply walked out like miss X and hundreds of her kin. In fact she admits she was treated well. Where they all went afterwards is not mentioned.
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Nazgul wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 9:25 am
Nessie wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:24 pm Where is your evidence of how many Jews in those camps in 1945?

To stay on topic, logically, since you cannot evidence millions of Jews still alive in 1944 and liberated in 1945, that is circumstantial evidence which supports the mass murder evidence.
The existence of a large number of Jewish camps in 1944 implies that they were full of Jews, just as the existence of houses, factories and schools implies people, workers and students.
You are admitting to your lack of actual evidence, and all you have is implication. That is because the evidence is the Soviets found largely empty camps as the Nazis fled west, and the Western Allies only found a few hundred thousand Jews in the camps they liberated.
I have said many times that the term "Liberated" has no meaning as the workers simply walked out like miss X and hundreds of her kin. In fact she admits she was treated well. Where they all went afterwards is not mentioned.
You admit that the only evidence you have, to your suggestion millions of Jews just walked out of camps, is a witness called "Miss X" and supposedly a few hundred people. The actual evidence is that the displaced persons agencies only reported a few hundred thousand Jews needing assistance after the war. There is no evidence of millions of Jews emigrating out of Europe. Every occupied country reported huge drops in their Jewish population and few, if any, returns.

You have implication and limited evidence, that is contradicted by a mountain of evidence. It is not just logic you need education in, it is evidencing.
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Nessie wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:00 am the evidence is the Soviets found largely empty camps as the Nazis fled west, and the Western Allies only found a few hundred thousand Jews in the camps they liberated.
The definition of a camp is your issue. Most labour camps were in schools, churches, town halls. That would explain why only a few hundred thousand were found in the camps you described; they were simply not in those type of "camps". If you had bothered to follow our research this would be self evident.
You admit that the only evidence you have, to your suggestion millions of Jews just walked out of camps, is a witness called "Miss X" and supposedly a few hundred people.
All the others obviously thought it was not an issue. They just got on with their lives like most now.
People simply do not report non issues. Until others prove otherswise, the majority of the Jews were not (((liberated))), but simply disengaged their captors. Please prove otherwise.
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Nazgul wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 1:43 pm
Nessie wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:00 am the evidence is the Soviets found largely empty camps as the Nazis fled west, and the Western Allies only found a few hundred thousand Jews in the camps they liberated.
The definition of a camp is your issue. Most labour camps were in schools, churches, town halls. That would explain why only a few hundred thousand were found in the camps you described; they were simply not in those type of "camps". If you had bothered to follow our research this would be self evident.
Name a school, a church and a town hall that was being used to accommodate Jews in 1944.
You admit that the only evidence you have, to your suggestion millions of Jews just walked out of camps, is a witness called "Miss X" and supposedly a few hundred people.
All the others obviously thought it was not an issue. They just got on with their lives like most now.
People simply do not report non issues.
Being imprisoned by the Nazis and then finding somewhere to live and work after the war, is not a non issue. You have zero evidence of millions of Jews being liberated and then as displaced persons.
Until others prove otherswise, the majority of the Jews were not (((liberated))), but simply disengaged their captors. Please prove otherwise.
You have admitted to having no evidence of mass liberations or displaced Jews after the war. Hence you push the burden of proof onto me.

The evidence, from the Nazis, is that they took as many prisoners with them as they fled the Soviets, leaving behind largely empty camps. The evidence is that the Soviets found mostly empty camps. There is evidence of only a few hundred thousand Jews as displaced persons.
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Nessie wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 7:02 pm Name a school, a church and a town hall that was being used to accommodate Jews in 1944.
Stop asking questions and do some research.
If you took time to read other posts, which you obviously do not, you would know that many of the camps did not have names. Your assumptions, such as naming and liberation, even camp definitions prevent you from understanding the reality.
In August 1944 I was drafted into a labour camp of the Organisation Todt ,Unternehmen Bert hold, about 20 miles from Breslau. Our accommodation, first in a barn, later on the dance floor of a country inn

You have zero evidence of millions of Jews being liberated and then as displaced persons.

You have admitted to having no evidence of mass liberations or displaced Jews after the war. Hence you push the burden of proof onto me.

The evidence, from the Nazis, is that they took as many prisoners with them as they fled the Soviets, leaving behind largely empty camps. The evidence is that the Soviets found mostly empty camps. There is evidence of only a few hundred thousand Jews as displaced persons.
The burden of proof is on you as you are the one pushing the claims. You have in your mind visions of all camps being SS Konzentrationslager, which they clearly were not. There was no mass liberations as people simply walked out. The scenario you think should be the case is pure fiction.
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Nazgul wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 9:43 pm
Nessie wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 7:02 pm Name a school, a church and a town hall that was being used to accommodate Jews in 1944.
Stop asking questions and do some research.
When you make a claim, it is up to you to do the research to back that claim up.
If you took time to read other posts, which you obviously do not, you would know that many of the camps did not have names. Your assumptions, such as naming and liberation, even camp definitions prevent you from understanding the reality.
In August 1944 I was drafted into a labour camp of the Organisation Todt ,Unternehmen Bert hold, about 20 miles from Breslau. Our accommodation, first in a barn, later on the dance floor of a country inn
Link to the source please
You have zero evidence of millions of Jews being liberated and then as displaced persons.

You have admitted to having no evidence of mass liberations or displaced Jews after the war. Hence you push the burden of proof onto me.

The evidence, from the Nazis, is that they took as many prisoners with them as they fled the Soviets, leaving behind largely empty camps. The evidence is that the Soviets found mostly empty camps. There is evidence of only a few hundred thousand Jews as displaced persons.
The burden of proof is on you as you are the one pushing the claims. You have in your mind visions of all camps being SS Konzentrationslager, which they clearly were not. There was no mass liberations as people simply walked out. The scenario you think should be the case is pure fiction.
You have failed to evidence millions of people were left behind in the camps, as the Nazis fled and they just walked out. You cannot evidence millions of Jews in Operation Todt camps in 1944-5.

I have evidenced the Nazi policy of taking prisoners with them as they fled west, only a few hundred thousand displaced Jewish persons after the war, and every occupied country reporting a huge drop in their Jewish population during occupation, which did not increase back to previous levels after the war.
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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."

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.

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.
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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.
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Another way to explain this to you is, conclusion, or lack thereof.

The revisionist argument that there is insufficient residue inside the Leichenkellers for them to have been used for mass gassings, therefore all the witnesses lied and there were no gassings, is not a complete conclusion. It leaves loose ends, and the answered questions, of what did happen, where did all the people go and why would the Nazis fake killing so many people?

When revisionists try to answer those questions, they come up with all sorts of unevidenced conclusions. The Leichenkeller was instead used as a bomb shelter, delousing chamber, mass shower or corpse store. The people were transported back out of the camp to be resettled in the east, or to go north and west to work in labour camps. The Nazis were forced by the Soviets and/or Jews and even fellow Germans, to confess to something they did not do. They cannot evidence those claims and prove a conclusion. Revisionists like to believe that they are the clever ones, but instead, they reveal their lack of investigative training and experience.

The historians, journalists and lawyers who have investigated what happened, have come to an evidenced conclusion. Revisionists try to make out that the conclusion is flawed, but it is remarkably consistent and any issues can easily be explained. There is corroborating evidence from multiple sources independent of each other, to prove mass gassings and nothing to prove mass resettlement.

That proves the fault lies with Rudolf's scientific conclusions. There is no evidence regarding the actual use of the Leichenkellers in 1943-4, that supports him. Instead, the evidence is gassings took place.
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Nessie, you are the most stubborn person I have ever met in my life. Let's ask ChatGPT (keeping in mind that it has been programmed to be highly biased against Holocaust revisionism.)
Q: I don't know if you are familiar with "Holocaust revisionism" but there is a "revisionist" named Germar Rudolf who published a report presented chemical samples from the walls of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. He argues that the lack of iron cyanide compounds in the homicidal gas chambers is evidence against the claim that there were regular gassings with Zyklon in that room, especially considering that iron cyanide compounds are found in the fumigation chambers where we know Zyklon was regularly used. Would Rudolf's book be an argument from incredulity fallacy?
A: Germar Rudolf's argument, as described, does not fit the definition of an argument from incredulity fallacy. Instead, it is a specific claim based on chemical evidence and comparisons, which can be evaluated on its scientific merits. Whether or not his conclusions are valid depends on the strength of the methodology, evidence, and interpretation, rather than the structure of the argument itself.

Why This Is Not an Argument from Incredulity
Substance of Argument: Rudolf's claim is based on an analysis of chemical samples and a comparison between the presence of iron cyanide compounds in different chambers. This is an evidence-based argument rather than one that relies on disbelief or a lack of imagination.
Focus on Data: An argument from incredulity occurs when someone rejects a claim simply because they "cannot imagine how it could be true." Rudolf's argument, however, hinges on his interpretation of physical and chemical data rather than an appeal to intuition.

[... gives some alternative responses...]

Conclusion
Rudolf’s argument is not an argument from incredulity. It is a scientific claim that must be evaluated based on its evidence and methodology. However, many historians, scientists, and researchers have critiqued his work for methodological flaws and selective reasoning. When assessing such claims, it's crucial to consider the broader context of the evidence and how well the argument holds up under scrutiny.
Nessie, give it up. I know it's hard for you to accept since you've been leaning on this "argument from incredulity" crutch for like a decade, but you are just wrong about this.

It's seems to me that you do not understand that an incorrect conclusion doesn't have to be a "fallacy."
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Archie wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:15 pm Nessie, you are the most stubborn person I have ever met in my life. Let's ask ChatGPT (keeping in mind that it has been programmed to be highly biased against Holocaust revisionism.)
Why are you using it? Can you not construct your own arguments?
Q: I don't know if you are familiar with "Holocaust revisionism" but there is a "revisionist" named Germar Rudolf who published a report presented chemical samples from the walls of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. He argues that the lack of iron cyanide compounds in the homicidal gas chambers is evidence against the claim that there were regular gassings with Zyklon in that room, especially considering that iron cyanide compounds are found in the fumigation chambers where we know Zyklon was regularly used. Would Rudolf's book be an argument from incredulity fallacy?
A: Germar Rudolf's argument, as described, does not fit the definition of an argument from incredulity fallacy.
Correct, the key part being "as described". You have limited what you have told AI, to make it appear it is just an opinion based on some testing.
Instead, it is a specific claim based on chemical evidence and comparisons, which can be evaluated on its scientific merits. Whether or not his conclusions are valid depends on the strength of the methodology, evidence, and interpretation, rather than the structure of the argument itself.

Why This Is Not an Argument from Incredulity
Substance of Argument: Rudolf's claim is based on an analysis of chemical samples and a comparison between the presence of iron cyanide compounds in different chambers. This is an evidence-based argument rather than one that relies on disbelief or a lack of imagination.
Focus on Data: An argument from incredulity occurs when someone rejects a claim simply because they "cannot imagine how it could be true." Rudolf's argument, however, hinges on his interpretation of physical and chemical data rather than an appeal to intuition.

[... gives some alternative responses...]

Conclusion
Rudolf’s argument is not an argument from incredulity. It is a scientific claim that must be evaluated based on its evidence and methodology. However, many historians, scientists, and researchers have critiqued his work for methodological flaws and selective reasoning. When assessing such claims, it's crucial to consider the broader context of the evidence and how well the argument holds up under scrutiny.
Nessie, give it up. I know it's hard for you to accept since you've been leaning on this "argument from incredulity" crutch for like a decade, but you are just wrong about this.

It's seems to me that you do not understand that an incorrect conclusion doesn't have to be a "fallacy."
You present AI with Rudolf's scientific evidence, that concludes gas was not used in a certain space. You do not present AI with any of the other evidence, so all it can do is make a decision based on just what you have chosen to tell it. You have failed to tell AI that he admits he may be wrong and that more testing is needed. There are chemists who dispute his findings. There is evidence from documents that gas chambers were constructed in that room and witnesses who worked there all say regular gassings took place in that room. Crucially, you have failed to tell AI that Rudolf uses his finding to claim no gassings took place, in the fact of evidence they did and that there is no evidence of anything other than gassings taking place.

Rudolf cannot imagine how it is true, that he could be wrong, even when he admits he may be wrong and in the face of evidence and opinion to contradict him. His basic conclusion, that gas was not used in that room, on its own, is not an argument from incredulity. His bigger argument, that his conclusion means therefore no gassings took place in any Krema or at Birkenau, or indeed anywhere else, and the entire gassing narrative is a lie, is.

AI is too easily manipulated to get a desired answer. I saw it happen with the pyres. It was asked how much wood was needed to cremate corpse on a pyre and it gave an answer. It was then asked how much wood was needed to cremate 2000 corpses and all AI did was multiply its original answer by 2000, but that is the answer for 2000 individual cremations. It is not the answer for one cremation of 2000 people.
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Nessie wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:46 am
Archie wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:15 pm Nessie, you are the most stubborn person I have ever met in my life. Let's ask ChatGPT (keeping in mind that it has been programmed to be highly biased against Holocaust revisionism.)
Why are you using it? Can you not construct your own arguments?
I have explained all of this to you many times, in my own words, as you well know. Others have as well.

The reason I am quoting the AI here is because I know from experience that you are stubborn as a mule and you won't take my word for it. Hence I am using the AI as an arbiter of sorts. And I have invited you to appeal to an arbiter of your choice, which you refuse to do since you know that you won't find anyone intelligent who will endorse your views on this. From what I have seen, you can't even get other online anti-revisionists to second you.

Even if Germar were wrong, this would be demonstrated by detailed scientific and historical arguments that would challenge his assumptions and interpretation of the data.

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Incidentally, there was nothing wrong with my prompt to the AI regarding Germar's research. But go ahead and give your own prompt with your own preferred wording.
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Archie wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 3:46 pm
Nessie wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:46 am
Archie wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:15 pm Nessie, you are the most stubborn person I have ever met in my life. Let's ask ChatGPT (keeping in mind that it has been programmed to be highly biased against Holocaust revisionism.)
Why are you using it? Can you not construct your own arguments?
I have explained all of this to you many times, in my own words, as you well know. Others have as well.

The reason I am quoting the AI here is because I know from experience that you are stubborn as a mule and you won't take my word for it. Hence I am using the AI as an arbiter of sorts. And I have invited you to appeal to an arbiter of your choice, which you refuse to do since you know that you won't find anyone intelligent who will endorse your views on this. From what I have seen, you can't even get other online anti-revisionists to second you.
I have not looked to get "seconds" to support me. Sanity Check thinks I overuse fallacies over historical evidence, but he has agreed I am correct in my identification of the fallacies used. The others, who regularly challenge revisionists, are more interested in the history.

If you take Rudolf's initial conclusion, in isolation, it is not a logical fallacy. He has conducted some experiments and concluded that a lack of residue means that the Leichenkellers were not exposed to high levels of Zyklon B, like the delousing chambers were, and the residue is closer to what is expected from occasional gassings, which happened in buildings to fight off lice and typhus.

But that is not his overall conclusion. He goes much further than questioning the levels of residue, he doubts the entire mass gassing narrative. He is concluding that there were no gassings at all at A-B, having only been into two of the Leichenkellers at Kremas I and II. There were another 3 Kremas and there were 2 Bunkers, which cannot be tested. He is now reliant only on his argument and belief that mass gassings are just too incredible to accept as possible.
Even if Germar were wrong, this would be demonstrated by detailed scientific and historical arguments that would challenge his assumptions and interpretation of the data.

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Which is what has happened. Rudolf's scientific conclusions have been challenged and his academic credibility is in tatters.
Incidentally, there was nothing wrong with my prompt to the AI regarding Germar's research. But go ahead and give your own prompt with your own preferred wording.
What AI did you use?
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