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Group/reverse group fallacy?As the storming of the US capitol by supporters of a certain man having lost his office just occurred a couple of hours ago, I keep seeing this (admittedly paraphrased) statement (and variations of it) pop up often in regards to the lax and overwhel... |
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What's this fallacy? The proof will come...Following the attack on the Capitol this week, a caller to CSPAN made an assertion that the MAGA hat wearing, Trump flag carrying "protesters" were actually Antifa in disguise. When asked what evidence there was for that, he said "You'll see, ... |
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A possible different version of the Gish Gallop Fallacy?I saw an argument today that went like this: "Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails, McCain's being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, S... |
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Can there be a reverse of the No True Scotsman fallacy?Hello, I've learned about the No True Scotsman fallacy from atheists, who, when pointing out an harmful action done by Christians receive responses from Christians who will say "Well, real Christians don't do that." After reading from this we... |
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Impossiblity - Burden of proofRecently I got into a discussion where someone expressed their incredulity regarding the ability of NASA to continue receiving transmissions from the Voyager 1 probe. They said it is ridiculous to think that radio signals from a 20 watt transmitter ... |
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"Homonym fallacies"Is there a Homonym Fallacy, i.e. two words that are spelled differently, mean different things but are pronounced the same? For example: "The reign in Spain was different 60 years ago." Different regime. "The rain in Spain was different 60 yea... |
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Classifications are Groups fallacyI see a lot of a particular intellectual error going around in politics, history and media. That is the identification of a classification group based upon a given attribute, which in itself is valid endeavor and then the ascription of a colle... |
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Taxonomies for fallaciesWe know that there are several taxonomies for fallacies. This fantastic site, when explaining a fallacy, does not refer to any classification (except to distinguish similar cases). Is there a reason for this choice? |
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Taste PleasureWhat would be the best description for the fallacy that attempts to justify killing animals for the sake of taste pleasure? All I'm ever able to muster up in response to this sort of reasoning is something along the lines of "Those two ideas just a... |
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Denail of Germ theory was slothful induction?If you were a qualified biologist and a friend of John Snow, and he showed you a very strong case for germ theory and you refused to accept it until there was a consensus amongst the scientific community, would you be committing slothful induction? ... |