{"id":379589,"date":"2018-10-04T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/christine-ford-vs-brett-kavanaugh\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T08:01:20","slug":"christine-ford-vs-brett-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/christine-ford-vs-brett-kavanaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Ford vs. Brett Kavanaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To hear numerous GOP and GOP-friendly (\u201cconservative\u201d) commentators tell it, both Christine Ford\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Brett Kavanaugh are highly \u201ccredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, none of these pundits claim to believe that Ford was telling\u00a0the truth<\/em>\u00a0when she claimed that she was sexually assaulted\u00a0by Judge Kavanaugh<\/em>.\u00a0 What they claim to believe is that she was indeed sexually abused\u2014but\u00a0by someone else<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Aristotle, the Father of Western logic, identified numerous fallacies. One of these is the fallacy of\u00a0equivocation.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the fallacy of which those of Kavanaugh\u2019s defenders who simultaneously find Ford \u201ccredible\u201d stand convicted.<\/p>\n

Equivocation occurs when an arguer slides from one meaning of a term to another in order to draw the conclusion that he desires.\u00a0 A blatantly obvious example of the fallacy of equivocation is something like this: \u201cJoe is a damn good athlete.\u00a0 Therefore, he must be a damn good human being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly, \u201cgood\u201d means two different things, depending upon whether it is used to describe an athlete or a person.<\/p>\n

Similarly, when Kavanaugh\u2019s Ford-sympathizing defenders assure us that both Ford and Kavanaugh are \u201ccredible,\u201d they are guilty of equivocating upon the word credible.
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Judge Kavanaugh is credible in that he has articulated a preponderance of exculpatory evidence, i.e.\u00a0good, coherent reasons\u00a0<\/em>vindicating him of the allegation leveled by Ford. Not only have several dozen people, and several dozen women, including ex-girlfriends from the years during which Ford claims he assaulted her, publically attested to his character. Kavanaugh has presented calendars that he kept at the time…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To hear numerous GOP and GOP-friendly (\u201cconservative\u201d) commentators tell it, both Christine Ford\u00a0and\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh are highly \u201ccredible.\u201d Of course, none of these pundits claim to believe that Ford was telling\u00a0the truth\u00a0when she claimed that she was sexually assaulted\u00a0by Judge Kavanaugh.\u00a0 What they claim to believe is that she was indeed sexually abused\u2014but\u00a0by someone else. Aristotle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}