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Slippery Slope or Non Sequitur????I teach argument basics and am revamping my fallacies lesson. A student sent me this picture of an obvious fallacy. I am stuck: is this a Slippery Slope or a Non Sequitur? Seems the steps are listed to qualify it as a Slippery Slope, but... |
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Argument about historyPerson 1: This historical figure was gay. Person 2: This historical figure was not gay. Person 1: How do you know, he could have been, what reason do you have to think they weren't gay? Person 2: Because I have yet to see any su... |
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ConsensusWhat do you say to someone who argues that everything that is determined to be true is based around consensus, so if you have control of the consensus, and thus can manipulate the consensus to say whatever you want the consensus to say, you therefor... |
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Argument“ The data-driven bottom line is that “man/woman” and “masculine/feminine” are neither biological terms nor rooted exclusively in biology. The lack of an explicit binary is especially evident in humans given the complex neurobiologies, lif... |
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Evolution“I know evolution is true because we see evolution happening all the time.” Is there a fallacy here? |
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Is it just me or is anyone else finding AI Fallacy Master irritating and wish it would go away? |
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Doing this one for fun/bored.Person 1: So, what, you figured you'd just let 'em get away with 9/11? Person 2: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11! And the war we started in lraq has killed a half a million of their people, which is like 200 9/11's. Person 3: So, I guess those mo... |
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Combination of weak argumentsHello, Let's say someone has an argument A. I can easily prove that A doesn't apply to everything. They then say another argument, B. I can also dismantle it. Then they say another weak argument C. All of these 3 arguments cannot survive debunking... |
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What fallacy“I don't support what the government in Israel has done to the Palestinians, but support for Hamas and what they did is disgusting.” What is the fallacy, if any? |
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What Fallacies“YES! We need to kill this idea that hierarchy is somehow inherently outdated and ‘bad’ (and the cousin of this argument, that networks are modern and ‘good’.) There can by tyranny not just in structurelessness, but in ... |