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The Lamb FallacyThe Lamb Fallacy, or Fallacia Agnorum, is a type of faulty reasoning marked by intentional deception. It occurs when misleading information is used to create a distorted view of reality, leading people to accept conclusions that are logically unsoun... |
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Fallacy of the Lamb-Fallacia Agnorum: has this fallacy already been termed?i accidently coined a phrase while working on my book chapter about perception. so my question is... has this fallacy already been listed or is it a new one? Fallacia Agnorum, or "The Fallacy of the Lamb" Conveys the idea that an indivi... |
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Iraq War fallacy validationThe Visegrad 24 Twitter account said this: Number of Christians in Iraq: 1991 - 1.7 mln 2003 - 1.4 mln 2008 - 700K 2015 - 400K 2024 - 150K Any protest marches in London? Then another user quote retweeted that there were plenty of pr... |
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Dungeons and DragonsThe creator of this website might be familiar with this controversy since he was an 80's child. My mother moved to this country in the early 80's during the controversy with Dungeons and Dragons. She is warning me about playing this game since she r... |
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About dictators"An overwhelming majority of dictators in the history of mankind are men." a) Do you think that this opinion of mine is based on facts and is not a fallacy? b) If it is a fallacy, which one is it? c) Another person answered to me, "Then an overwh... |
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Shaming Fallacies?Ever since October 7 and the start of the Israel Hamas War, social media (in particular Twitter and Instagram) have been rife with arguments and statements aiming to shame people in not siding with one side or the other. From my reading of it over t... |
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Any fallacy in this climate change debate?Climate science is probably the worst topic in the world to discuss with non-scientists. I have never had anything good come out of it, and even the most sane and impartial people overall tend to turn into ideological zombies the moment someone men... |
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Statistical Fallacy?Imagine a year when two dozen mountain climbers perish, mostly in the Himalayas. Person A says "Wow, expedition climbing sounds a little dangerous!" Person B says, "Baloney. Statistics indicate that the great majority of climbers live to climb ano... |
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"Oh, you don't know?"Hi everyone! I was watching a debate on which an anti-vaxxer, with his back against the wall, started asking "at what cost !" did we enforce vaccinations. To this, his opponent asked "what is the cost of getting the vaccine then?" The r... |
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Complex question fallacy*Do you condemn Hamas ?* Isn't a fallacy ? Complex question fallacy? Because it presupposes that all of that happening start on 7 Oct ..and Also justified what isreal is doing ,whereas according to the UN reports Gaza is the world's l... |