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Re: Equivocated

Posted by Nilet on Mon Jun 1 03:09:22 2015, in response to Re: Caught, posted by AlM on Fri May 29 08:35:13 2015.

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Indeed, the post was fantastic in two senses of the term. However, there are three things that the word "fantasy" and its derived terms can mean.

1. "Fantasy" refers to a desire; particularly, a complex desire that one envisions and wishes fulfilled.

2. "Fantasy" refers to a genre of literature, of which science fiction is essentially a subset.

3. The derived "fantastic" means "extremely good," as if from a fantasy under definition 1 come to life.

It is correct (and I acknowledged) that my work is fantastic in the second and third sense— it is exceptionally good, and it is science fiction, which is a subset of the "fantasy" genre. However, Bill Brooklyn incorrectly asserted that it was a fantasy under definition 1, which is obviously not true.

You then commit an equivocation fallacy, arguing that because my work was belongs to the "fantasy" genre, Bill Brooklyn was correct to say that it was something I desired to be true when those are, in fact, different things united only be a linguistic coincidence.

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