I'm watching videos on youtube about the logical fallacy false equivalence. How come they're all fucking retarded and wrong?

False equivalence is not flat earth vs round earth, creationism vs evolution etc as these retards all say.

False equivalence is you have a statement where two things A and B are both said to be something X. To then conclude that THEREFORE A=B is to commit the fallacy false equivalence.

>coffee is black
>crows are black
>therefore coffee=crows

>apples are edible
>potatoes are edible
>therefore apples=potatoes

False equivalence only means that you can't conclude from the statement alone that A and B are the same. However you also can't conclude that they are NOT the same from the statement alone. To determine whether they are the same or not you need to inquire whether A and B have additional attributes. There are cases such as:

>California is sunny
>Los Angeles is sunny
>Los Angeles is California

>fruits are edible
>apples are edible
>apples are fruits

You are not concluding that Los Angeles is California simply from the information in the statement alone, simply because both are sunny. You are not concluding that apples are fruits simply from the information in the statement alone, simply because both are edible. You are concluding it based on further information. It's only false equivalence when you are making the conclusion from the statement alone.

They are suppressing real information on logic.

>gnosis is knowledge which can't be transferred from one person to another
>perception of color is knowledge which can't be transferred from one person to another
>is perception of color gnosis?
Asking this question is not to commit the fallacy false equivalence. Concluding that gnosis is knowledge which can't be transferred from one person to another, and perception of color is knowledge which can't be transferred from one person to another, THEREFORE perception of color is gnosis, is committing the fallacy false equivalence.

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I'm watching videos on youtube about the logical fallacy false equivalence. How come they're all fucking retarded and wrong?False…

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