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user-inactivated  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Forum where fallacies are banned

I'd say a graph is the same kind of thing as a diagram in geometry, an aid to understanding but not an argument in itself. I don't know where Aristotle would classify just pointing at a diagram though. Not logos, geometers in his day knew a diagram wasn't a proof already.