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Are these fallacies, if so which fallacies?"Among the man ills fatherlessness portends are much higher taes of teen drug abius, crime, pregnancy, and school dropouts. The evidence is clear 'man as idiot' isn't going over very well these days How fathers are portrayed is of particular imp... |
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What fallacy is this?Person T did something illegal and corrupt. People D take legal action against person T. Person T claims people D are idiots and therefor that means person T is innocent. |
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Does a pattern constitute evidence, logic or both?Before they unraveled the secrets of DNA, scientists used a variety of patterns to help them classify living things. These patterns included similarities in appearance and behavior, similar range, and relationships reconstructed from the fossil recor... |
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Creating Kafkaesque systems deliberately to dissuade competition, make is super difficultI will give an example of this type of madness. INDIA - Every year millions of people compete for a less than 10,000 college seats in IITs across India, the only colleges worth pursuing a degree in, due to the dismal conditions of education in the re... |
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Good Does Not Offset BadPresident Trump has said on a number of occasions, "How can they impeach me when I'm doing such a great job?" Is the fallacy here merely a non-sequitur (job performance is unrelated to whether an impeachable offense has been committed), or ... |
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How would you characterise the fallacies in this statement: "If prisoners receive free meals, why don't students- our future doctors, artists, engineers, etc.- also get free meals? |
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fallacy of intended useOn a Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SOBsoY9Mg the presenter offers the 'fallacy of intended use', i.e. if A is intended for purpose B, it is immoral to use it for any other purpose. Is there another name for this? |
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I saw this question today on Quora and immediately shared it herehttps://www.quora.com/What-are-the-common-logical-fallacies-used-in-arguments-for-and-against-AGW What are the common fallacies used in arguments for and against AGW? Enjoy! Edit: I let the Quora folks know this question was here, so you may see so... |
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Never Being Named Directly - Fallacy or Fair Argument?For example Bob robs a bank, but indirect evidence plus multiple corroborating eyewitness testimonies implicates another man, Steve in helping Bob plan the heist. However, some police reports (not all, some are still hidden in the archives) leak to t... |
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Asking extremely basic questions to win arguments - Name the bias or the fallacy at playRecently I went to a product manager interview. They asked a few questions, for which I gave the answers. But eventually, one interviewer asked extremely trivial questions i.e. the first year of graduation questions - How does the wifi router work? H... |