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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... |
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Is this an appeal to positive consequences?appeal to consequences I was just wondering whether the following verse from the Qur'an would be considered an appeal to positive consequences fallacy? Surah 2:21 - "O mankind! worship your Lord, the One Who created you and those from before you,... |
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Fact Check failI have sometimes found fact checks to be useful for debunking certain alternative viewpoints or claims, but at other times I have found fact checks to admit the truth of the claim, while denying it is true at the same time, while employing fallaciou... |
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There is no difference between these two fallacies.Just finished the book and it seems that, "bulverism" is exactly the same as an ad hominem, stating that an argument cannot be true because of the character. A great example of an ad hominem is Saying that someone who doesn't have a uterus ca... |
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What fallacy is the opposite of the appeal to novelty fallacy?I’ve been looking for a specific fallacy that I remember seeing for a bit but I can’t find it. The fallacy is basically the opposite of the appeal to novelty fallacy |
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Difference between sunk cost fallacy and an appeal to closure?Appeal to closure goes like this: Person 1 makes argument x Person 1 refuses to prove x X is regarded as true for the sake of closure. Sunk cost fallacy: Person 1 invests into x It is better to stop investing into x Person 1 continues... |
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Dismisssing the other person by claiming their motive is nafarious.I think this seems to be a common trope by calling women "TERFs" for criticizing gender identity acts that could potentially allow someone to speak their way into a women's prison, or calling people " racist " for criticism of religious practices su... |
