Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.
There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
Proof by analogy is fraud.
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
