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Marxist telling me Marxism is EmpiricalI’ve always tried to be open minded too the dozens of proposed socialist economic and ideologies including none socialist capitalist ideologies of libertarianism and anarcho capitalism . Sticking with Marxism for right now. I always felt... |
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Fallacy of Division, Politics and DemocracyIt has been occurring to me of late that one particular fallacy, seems to have an overlarge influence on politics, it is the fallacy of division . I wonder how much of the historical ideological success of Democracy and Socialism is owed to this p... |
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Faulty comparison, or false equivalence, or logically sound?Is comparing a fetus with a baby or an individual living human being a false equivalence, or a faulty comparison, or logically sound? |
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Proof by AppearanceDear Dr. Bo, I really enjoy parsing through your side and using it as a reference to point out faulty logic when being confronted with the usual gibberish you have in the 'net. When stumbling over this (sorry, german) video https://www.youtube.com... |
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Possible fallacy regarding the political term flip-flopping?I have been seeing people use the term flip flopping incorrectly lately regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. My understanding is that Flip-flopping is usually only valid when its in regards to something subjective. For example, if a politician says... |
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Affirming the consequent?P1: Only Targaryens can ride dragons P2: Tyrion Lannister rode a dragon C: Therefore, Tyrion Lannister is Targaryen I know the fallacious form if A then B. B. Therefore, A is invalid. But, what if the premise is true, that is only Tragaryens can ... |
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Can subjectivity make a fallacy not a fallacy?Professional artist A creates paintings. Person 1: Artist A's artwork is bad because he is a Biden supporter. Now, I know this is usually a non sequitur fallacy because the two things are completely unrelated. But, since artwork... |
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Could this be begging the question?P1: All the people at the table had their heads shaved. P2: Jim was at the table. C: Therefore, Jim had his head shaved. |
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A error in reasoning about the pandemic that I see a lot lately.What fallacy might this be? It seems like a version of the scapegoat fallacy but not sure. A (Pandemics), causes B (federal government and democrats), to cause C (economic hardship, mandates, restrictions, closed schools etc). We d... |
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Fallacies involved in arguing for God or mythological charactersI've been thinking about the following arguments for a while: Person 1: Just like how the PhD thesis of Stephen Hawking is evidence that he was intelligent, so too, in a similar way, the universe is evidence that whatever the cause behind it ... |