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Is This Even A Logical Fallacy?I’ve had many discussions with science deniers over the years. One of their weirdest arguments is that gravity doesn’t exist. First, for the purposes of this discussion, let’s ignore the fact that gravity has always b... |
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Oh but this is just an exceptionMany times have I seen this response: "For every rule there is an exception and this is the exception to the rule" or simply, this is just an exception/anomaly. From my own experience, responses like this come from people who don't really argue in g... |
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Gish Gallop & can't find the nameHello, The book is an absolute gem both in style and substance (I am the grown up smart ass). I reference it while deconstructing testimony and cite it in legal briefs. I am looking for name for a type of argument that I frequently see, but for whi... |
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Burden of proofThe general form of the burden of proof fallacy is claiming that something is the case simply because no one has proved otherwise. However, I think there are situations where it's not unreasonable to do so, because sometimes you don't need direct pr... |
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Fallacies in formal writingWhich are the most common fallacies in formal writing, e.g., annual reports or research papers? I am building a machine learning model to detect fallacious arguments and would like to limit them to the most relevant ones. |
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Formal writing & fallaciesWhat are the most common fallacies found in formal writing, e.g., annual reports, research papers? |
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If I Feel It Strongly, It Must Be TrueIs there a specific name for concluding something is true because I feel it strongly? Is this a type of Confirmation Bias or does it have some other name? In today's Wall Street Journal , there's a column by Peggy Noonan in which she... |
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Demographics and politics. What are the fallacies people use when describing Trumps base.Politics and party affiliation have demographic trends. A trend I've seen and other people as well is that a large portion of non-college-educated whites voted for Trump. A lot of them went for Obama, Kerry and Gore in the past but turned to Trump. ... |
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Principle of CharityConsider this example from an article discussing a computer programming textbook. The first paragraph is from the textbook; the second from the article Your computer can only understand machine logic, a compact series of computer-readable ins... |
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Ben Shapiro (not exact quote, paraphrase)Because it has the name "boy" in it boy scouts is for boys only not for girls. |
