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Presentism fallacyI notice that this fallacy doesn't seem to be on this site. It means judging things that happened in the past by present day moral standards, which in many cases isn't really fair. For instance, people often complain about things in old films or TV ... |
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Is this an Appeal to Consequences fallacy?"if [sex work] income couldn’t be taxed, it would be the easiest way to launder money ever." I know evidence is important in these kinds of arguments, but I'm primarily asking about its validity as an argument. appeal to consequences |
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Thankyou for mansplaining that to me.If you say you disagree with something lets say it's the concept of mansplaining it's self. And no carefully you articulate your point against it the answer is "thank you for mansplaining that to me". What fallacy would that be an example of? |
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Progressophobia??Bill Maher had a bit about 'Progressophobia', that seemed to start with an argument based on a false premise about people thinking that racism is worse now than in the past. Video link ... and that therefore people are afraid to admit ... |
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Hypostatisation?Reification involves treating ideas as if they were real. TV Tropes (which has a list of logical fallacies of its own - many of which are more bad arguments and less errors in reasoning) lists the fallacy as hypostatisation instead, giving t... |
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Assumption of linearity / "Oven Logic"Often, we wrongly model things linearly, as if the variable x against some sort of common metric y should yield a straight line (or at least, we assume the gradient won't change significantly in the course of our data plotting). This is the incorrec... |
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Applying general statistics to individuals in a Controversial DebatePeople often take general population stats and act as if they can apply to individuals - usually themselves - because they share something in common with the group that the statistics are taken on. Logical form: X stat refers to A group (on averag... |
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'Loki's Wager'The continuum fallacy occurs when a reasoner claims that the lack of a binary distinction between A and B means no useful distinction exists between the two. A related concept is Loki's Wager , which is the insistence that if a concept cannot be d... |
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Extended False Equivalency?This the form for the False Equivalency fallacy: 1. Thing 1 and thing 2 both share characteristic A. 2. Therefore, things 1 and 2 are equal. I had this little chat with someone who denied simultaneous causation: Me: take the example of a billiar... |
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Further exception to appeal to tradition?I think there could be an expansion of the exception to the appeal to tradition fallacy, namely that if something has worked fine so far and there's no compelling reason to change it or no indication that doing so would make any difference then that... |
