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fallacy of denying induction as logical method without good reason.Not sure if my first post transferred, so here it is again. "INDUCTION MAY BE A NECESSARY THOUGHT PROCESS AND NO DOUBT IT PLAYS A ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF SOME GENERALIZATIONS. BUT IT IS NOT A LOGICAL PROCESS. THERE IS NO NECESSITY THAT THE N... |
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People who use Induction for deductive claims. How many fallacies is this?I've seen statements of people arguing against medical science in peer reviewed Journals by saying: Person 1: Vaccines might not work Person 2: How so? What about the mountain of data from so many peer reviewed sources? Person 1: Yeah that data m... |
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Question about modus tollensHi, I would like to know if this form of argument is valid or not: P1) If A is not true, then B is not true P2) B is true C1) A is true Thanks! |
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Presenting an impossible condition.I was in a disagreement with someone about speed limits, I went into great detail about what's been shown to exacerbates speed limit-non compliance, as in what leads to people paying less attention to speed limits as in arbitrary placing of boundari... |
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Ad hominemIs there a specific name for an ad hominem fallacy where someone targets traits that they don't even know that the other person has? For instance, I've seen it happen where they make an assumption about the size of the other person's certain anatomi... |
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Black people don’t like Kanye WestI have a far left Black friend who told me that, “Black people don’t like Kanye West”. There are a lot of things wrong with this sentence, such as the fact that one far left Black person does not speak for all Black people, b... |
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Ben and Jerry's Fallacy?The owners of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream are boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. In this video - Ben and Jerry: Hypocrites? - a woman suggests they're hypocrites because they aren't also boycotting Georgia and Texas, whe... |
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Absolute, and, Total DenialMy question is this: if, someone resorts to outright denial (I have in mind, a friend, who will take this stance, whenever the topic of biblical error/contradiction, comes up), is this a ' logical fallacy ' - by any stretch? It seems so, to me, but ... |
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A Logical analysis of this argument in the Rittenhouse trial."Mr. Rittenhouse, why didn't you let the person trying to kill you kill you before you decided to defend yourself." Seems like a presupposition that the person he killed was going to kill him. After all, that assumption is unknowable and we cant... |
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When logic fallacy is when a Conspiracy theorist implies Peer reviewed, double blind Studies with huge sample sizes are forged to an agenda ?I understand their trying to “imply” bias for vaccine studies something similar to bias news sources spouting what ever narrative. This just seems like an unfalsifiable claim with the statically probability that somehow all these studies... |
