Via Vlastimil V.:
There is something "which may be called the Fallacy of objections, i.e. showing that there are objections against some plan, theory or system, and thence inferring that it should be rejected; when that which ought to have been proved, is, that there are more, or stronger objections against the receiving than the rejecting of it. This is the main, and almost universal Fallacy of infidels, and is that of which men should be first and principally warned." Richard Whately, Logic, 1849, ch. V "On Fallacies," p. 82. See here.
How quaint our concern with the lore of logic while jihadi's cut throats on London Bridge and leftist thugs shout down the sane at universities. Logic books and books in general are of no use against barbarians and thugs. Magazines are much more effective.
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