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Logical Fallacies and PoliticsWhat are some fallacies that left wing American politicians and activists use? |
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RealityIf you stop calling something by the title you’ve used to call it, is it still that thing? If we stop calling Ancient Rome as Ancient Rome, rewrote all the history books calling it Ancient Rome, and again forced anyone who called it An... |
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Social constructionWhat do you say to someone who says everything is a social construction, meaning everything is made up by man and has no existence beyond our perception? Truth, Justice, Right, Wrong, Men, Women, even logical fallacies themselves. So i... |
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How do you know?Let’s say hypothetically you are engaging in an argument with someone, and you provide all manner of facts to support your claims. These facts are provided by scientific journals, historical texts, dictionaries, everything you can manage to pr... |
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What do you call the fallacy of "seeing the effect and assuming the cause"?I often come across cases that I have labeled as "seeing the effect and assuming the cause". Is there a specific Dr. Bo's fallacy that covers this. Here are some examples - 1. Jack is all alone in a room. John enters the room to find that Ja... |
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Term chopping - Definist Fallacy?Here's an argument strategy I've seen used often online. I think it would fit into the definist fallacy , but I wanted to open this up for discussion. What a person will do is, take a mult-word term that's relevant to the argument and that has a ... |
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Fallacy when serial liar says, "I'm only human. We all tell lies"?#1: Suppose someone is demonstrably a serial liar — they lie about pretty much everything. When confronted with this fact, they respond, "I'm only human. We all tell lies." What fallacy would you call that? #2: Now, let's say the seria... |
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Is the conclusion "We shall see" a fallacy, or a bias?Example: P1: Evidence against thing X exists. P2: I like thing X. P3: I believe evidence will come out absolving thing X. C: Therefore, we shall see. Or when someone always ends a conversation with, "we shall see" only a... |
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Would you say that using the phrase "Just my luck" is a "Confirmation Bias" fallacy"?I was wondering if a person who is experiencing something that they perceive as an unfortunate event and then uses the phrase "Just my luck" is committing a "Confirmation Bias" fallacy? It could be an event as trivial as accidentally knocking over a... |
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"The pink banana phenomenon". What do you guys make of this?Is this some kind of new psychological phenomenon, or type of bias? I was talking with one of my friends who has some strong biases against illegal immigration in the U.S. So I decided to create a list of questions to figure out what was goi... |
