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Something can be a logical fallacy while still being epistemologically justified. That's because logic is not an a priori description of reality; it's just a system for making inferences that happen to often be useful models of reality. But if I change my system of logic (e.g. move from accepting to rejecting the law of the excluded middle) then one set of fallacies disappears and another appears.


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