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What Cognitive Bias Is This: Believing Something Because It Fits One's NarrativeMerriam-Webster defines Narrative as" a way of presenting or understanding a situation or series of events that reflects and promotes a particular point of view or set of values." People are often so convinced of their point of view that they belie... |
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What is the reason for taking your position on Abortion?My father and I were in conversation, when it turned to the dark side for a few minutes. "Why are you willing to side-step choice and force a woman to carry the child to term?" (me) "You know, a million fetuses are aborted annually. And if the wer... |
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Different Interpretation of "Ad Hominem - Circumstantial"I notice Irving Copi’s famous book on logic takes a different take on “Ad Hominem-Circumstantial” than almost all other authors including Dr. Bo. In Copi’s version, an "Ad Hominem Circumstantial" is an argument w... |
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Which fallacy is this?Person 1: Jan 6th was not an insurrection. Person 2: The expert body at the CDP with the Cline Center that was set up to determine what qualifies for coups and insurrections around the globe classified Jan 6th as an attempted dissident coup. ... |
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More examples of a Weak and extended analogy please?Hey Can you please clarify the difference between a weak analogy and the extended analogy I genuinely don't understand the difference. Like not only explain it but a few examples I would highly appreciate it. Anyone is free to try help ... |
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Appeal to possibility definitionI'm reading the definition of appeal to possibility where it says "When a conclusion is assumed not because it is probably true or it has not been demonstrated to be impossible , but because it is possible that it is true" Isn't it "not bein... |
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What kind of fallacy involved lying about your political affiliations or being dishonestIs this a logic fallacy? Reminding or Telling people your very liberal or Conservative when faced with criticism but then on all talking points or political views you lean towards the opposite way. I don’t know why I’m so hung up on this... |
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Is this appeal to bias?Is it fallacious to prefer to read unbiased sources because they generally have a more proper view? I tend to learn about religions from academic, scholarly, and objective sources and not from, for example, evangelical websites, so I was jus... |
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What’s wrong with this induction?P1) Lots of animals lay eggs P2) Animals are things C1) Therefore, lots of things lay eggs P3) People are things C2) Therefore, lots of people lay eggs I know that there’s something wrong with this inference but I can&rsqu... |
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Moralistic issues are appeals to consequents.There is an appeal to consequents and the moralistic fallacy. The moralistic fallacy is essentially that if something is ought to be, it is to be a certain way (Z) where Z is a desirable or an undesirable thing. This is exactly the same as an appe... |
