Argumentum ad dictionarium

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It needs a page. (Yes, someone did hit me with this argumentum today in particularly annoying way. How did you guess?)

    Nebuchadnezzar (talk)06:36, 5 September 2012

    I can give it a shot, I don't really need to do real work today. That's for losers!

      Scarlet A.pngpostateModerator08:51, 5 September 2012
       

      If I start it as a stock rant, do you want to add the Wittgenstein references?

        Scarlet A.pngtheistModerator09:23, 5 September 2012

        Put in a subpage as it was turning into too much of an extended rant for the mainspace.

          Scarlet A.pngd hominemModerator10:03, 5 September 2012

          Heh. So is it an essay now instead of an article?

            Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:40, 5 September 2012

            I want to make an article, I just didn't think it was quite mainspace material in that form.

              Scarlet A.pnggnosticModerator20:46, 5 September 2012
               
               
               

              Oh, look, an example in the wild!

                Scarlet A.pngd hominemModerator11:23, 7 September 2012
                 

                It really does need a page. Yesterday I was arguing with this guy pulling the same old 'we can never be certain of anything we can only be reasonably sure of it' spiel, except then he demanded we not use the words 'to be' and 'exists' because according to him no one could define them. By his own logic.

                So basically we could not make the argument that we can be certain of existence because he banned the word and concept of existence itself.

                It's a really cheap way to cut off the other side of an argument.

                  ±Knightoftldrsig.pngKnightOfTL;DRlavishly loquacious11:31, 7 September 2012
                   
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