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Term chopping - Definist Fallacy?Here's an argument strategy I've seen used often online. I think it would fit into the definist fallacy , but I wanted to open this up for discussion. What a person will do is, take a mult-word term that's relevant to the argument and that has a ... |
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Fallacy when serial liar says, "I'm only human. We all tell lies"?#1: Suppose someone is demonstrably a serial liar — they lie about pretty much everything. When confronted with this fact, they respond, "I'm only human. We all tell lies." What fallacy would you call that? #2: Now, let's say the seria... |
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Is the conclusion "We shall see" a fallacy, or a bias?Example: P1: Evidence against thing X exists. P2: I like thing X. P3: I believe evidence will come out absolving thing X. C: Therefore, we shall see. Or when someone always ends a conversation with, "we shall see" only a... |
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Would you say that using the phrase "Just my luck" is a "Confirmation Bias" fallacy"?I was wondering if a person who is experiencing something that they perceive as an unfortunate event and then uses the phrase "Just my luck" is committing a "Confirmation Bias" fallacy? It could be an event as trivial as accidentally knocking over a... |
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"The pink banana phenomenon". What do you guys make of this?Is this some kind of new psychological phenomenon, or type of bias? I was talking with one of my friends who has some strong biases against illegal immigration in the U.S. So I decided to create a list of questions to figure out what was goi... |
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Is this argument valid?1: Some abstract objects exist necessarily. 2: Abstract objects depend for their existence on concrete objects. 3: So, at least one concrete object exists necessarily. |
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Double standard, or false equivalence?Person 1: I can't find a specific food item in this massive walk in pantry because there are over 10,000 different products in here and all of them have advertising written all over them and I can't read them all to find the one thing I am looking f... |
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What is the fallacy of equal outcome but presumed to be inequal?For example a passenger complains of a "low-cost" airline that charges passengers for just about every facility used on board from headsets to food and drink. Yet the same passenger praises another airline for having "free" in-flight facilities des... |
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A question about the epistemology of narratives and assessing what's true or false.I have noticed a lot of people operating from stage 1 thinking to determine what is and isn't true just by the narrative alone. They will say, "I don't buy that narrative", instead of looking at the facts or logic of the arguments. Or, they will au... |
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Red Herring Fallacy?I don't know if this is a fallacy or not, but I feel like it is. Would using the concept of being a "good person" as an argument be a fallacy? Example: Kate: Bryson punched me earlier today Linda: I don't believe you. Bryson wouldn't harm a fly/B... |
