Fallacys

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appeal of ignorance

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arguing that a lack of evidence proves something

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appeal to inappropriate authority

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when a claim is believed because someone is thought as an expert when they are really not an expert

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the fallacy of general popular belief

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arguing that a claim must be true based on a substantial amount of peoples believe it

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the fallacy of popular attitudes and emotions

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peer pressure to believe or do things the group does

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the gamblers fallacy

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belief that previous events can influence the probablitie of task at hand

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the false cause fallacy

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confusing cause with temporal order

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the fallacy of hasty generalizations

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when assumptions about a group are made based on one small sample

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the fallacy of the false dilemma

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asserting that there is only 2 possible alternatives when there is really more

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the fallacy of the loaded question

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get an awnser from an unfair question ( have u stopped beating ur dog)

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the fallacy of begging the question

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(or arguing in a circle Example:
‘The Bible says that God exists. The Bible must be true because God wrote it.
Therefore, God exists.”

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The slippery slope fallacy

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The idea behind the metaphor is that if you take the first step on a slippery slope, you will have to take others because, well, the slope is slippery.

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the flalacy of against the person

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rejecting a claim by criticizing the person who makes it rather than the claim itself.

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you too

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Don’t you know that cheating on income taxes is wrong?

How can you tell me that, you cheated on your income taxes last year!

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the pooh pooh fallacy

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involves a refusal to examine an argument seriously and evaluate it fairly.

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The straw man fallacy

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involves distorting, weakening, or oversimplifying someone’s position so that it can be more easily attacked or refuted.

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the loaded words fallacy

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Using highly charged words to assume the truth of a conclusion

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the definitial dodge fallacy

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consists of redefining a crucial term in a claim to avoid acknowledging a counter-example that would falsify the claim.


A doctor without knowledge of philosophy has no right to call himself a doctor.

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the exception tht proves the rule fallacy

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allows someone defending a claim to dodge a counter-example.

A: What I like about Robert Frost is the cleverness with which he makes all his poetry rhyme.

B: But ‘Mending Fences’ doesn’t rhyme.

A: But that’s the exception that proves my point!