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    Relevance is not a binary property but a scalar one, maki... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Irrelevant premise fallacies and insufficient premise fallacies are meaningfully distinct categories.

    Relevance is not a binary property but a scalar one, making the boundary between 'no support' and 'insufficient support' indeterminate.

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    • 1.Relevance in real discourse varies continuously: evidence can be somewhat helpful, quite helpful, or extremely helpful without discrete thresholds.
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    • 2.Legal and scientific standards already treat sufficiency as gradated (preponderance vs. beyond reasonable doubt), reflecting scalar relevance.
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    • 3.Claiming binary boundaries requires stipulating arbitrary cutoffs where none exist naturally in degree-based reasoning.
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    • 1.For reasoning to be actionable, we must eventually decide: support or don't support. Scalar properties require binary decisions at some point.
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    • 2.Indeterminacy between categories is a problem to solve via better analysis, not evidence that the categories themselves lack boundaries.
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    • 3.Cognitive frameworks naturally partition evidence into discrete evaluative categories; scalar properties describe magnitude within categories, not between them.
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