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AITA for calling out my wife when she uses informal fallacies every time we talk?
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Basically what the title says. I graduated last year with my degree in philosophy. Everything that comes out of my bitch wife’s mouth ends up fallacious, but when I explain to her why her argument is not logically sound, she Stoically displays vindictive anger.

She constantly uses arguments ad nauseam combined with post hoc fallacies and false attributions; over and over and over again she insists that I need to get a job and stop playing World of Warcraft all day because we don’t have any food in the fridge. I try to explain to her that:

1.) Correlation =/= causation; just because there is no food in the fridge, it doesn’t mean the reason why is my lack of employment. Maybe there’s no food in the fridge because somebody ate it all? That seems more logical to me.

2.) Repeating this argument daily does not make it more logical. She is making a common fallacy (ad nauseam). But when I tell her that, she just gets angrier and uses circular reasoning.

3.) Similarly to point 1, she falsely attributes my unemployment being caused by my laziness when, in fact, it is actually caused by my BA in Philosophy.

AITA for trying to make her understand I’m just trying to help her think more logically and less emotionally? She is a biochemist in a lab that manufactures cell therapy to cure pediatric cancer, so she’s a little on the slower side when it comes to my area of expertise.

TIA!

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