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Your theory does not work under my theory, so your theory must be wrong (view source)
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This is a special case of [[circular reasoning]] in which the person tries to disprove a point of view by interpreting the facts through a different view. The logical structure of such an argument is:
This is a special case of [[circular reasoning]] in which the person tries to disprove a point of view by interpreting the facts through a different view. The logical structure of such an argument is:
# To show that the opposing theory infers a given proposition, and then to show definitively that that proposition is contrary to fact. For example, the [[phlogiston]] theory of fire held that a flammable substance always contained another substance, called "phlogiston," that actually burned. [[Antoine Lavoisier]] demonstrated a combustion reaction in which the solid products clearly weighed ''more'' than the initial fuel, a thing that the phlogiston theory could not possibly explain.
# To show that the opposing theory infers a given proposition, and then to show definitively that that proposition is contrary to fact. For example, the [[phlogiston]] theory of fire held that a flammable substance always contained another substance, called "phlogiston," that actually burned. [[Antoine Lavoisier]] demonstrated a combustion reaction in which the solid products clearly weighed ''more'' than the initial fuel, a thing that the phlogiston theory could not possibly explain.
== See Also ==
== See Also ==