![]() ![]() However wrong Bennett may or may not have been on other issues, that does not mean that his criticisms of rap were mistaken. Glassner suggests that Bennett is somehow unqualified to criticize rap music because of positions Bennett has taken on other issues.(For example, inferring guilt from a denial â or, less starkly, excessive devaluation of a denial â is a very common feature in conspiracy theories, witch-hunts, show trials, struggle sessions, and other coercive circumstances in which the person targeted is presumed guilty.) To construe invalid evidence of the denial as valid evidence of the original claim is fallacious (on several different bases, including that of argumentum ad hominem and appeal to emotions) however likely the man in question would be to deny an affair that did in fact happen, he is even more likely to deny an affair that never happened. However, this argument is valid only insofar as it devalues the denial it does not strengthen the original claim. His denial, in itself, provides little evidence against the claim of an affair. Her point was that a man in a prominent position, accused of an affair with a callgirl, would deny the claim whether it was true or false. ![]() ![]() Mandy Rice-Davies's famous testimony during the Profumo Affair, 'He would, wouldn't he?', is an example of a valid circumstantial argument. ![]()
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