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Do you accept "No discussion" and "The Big Lie Technique" as logical fallacies?Owen Williamson , lecturer in Developmental English at University of Texas, El Paso, who I suspect is retired, put up the page, Master List of Logical Fallacies , about which he says, "No claim is made to "academic rigor" in this listing." While it ... |
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"Appeal to Triviality"Lately on Twitter I have seen people post an image about the "Appeal to Triviality" fallacy, 'where the person who commits it argues that the argument "doesn't matter" in an attempt to make their opponents give up so they can push their agenda witho... |
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Is argument from ignorance always fallacious? |
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Activist versus nuclear advocateI'd love to hear an opinion from the community about this: Alessio, (me) commenting a really good informative video about climate change and energy solutions and a reply from an Nuclear advocate, he's actually a nuclear ingeneer I think. A: "... |
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Frame Flipping?People strongly opposed to same sex unions often position themselves behind a far more ‘respectable’ facade than blunt homophobia, and say that same-sex marriage ‘threatens the family.’ And in Gary Chapman’s When Sorry ... |
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I feel like this is an example of using weasle words.I caught someone saying : "From all the things they could choose to be interested about children and underage people in general, is very disturbing that they have chosen to be interested about what they do with their genitals." ... |
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It is wrong to kill human beings. Human beings are animals. So it is wrong to kill animals.I feel there is something wrong with this argument. Could anyone help give an explanation? What kind of fallacy is it? Thanks a million! |
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Fallacy of division erratumIn the exception part of Fallacy of Division, just above the "tip" it says: Exception: When a part of the whole has a property that, by definition, causes the part to take on that property. I think it should be: Exception: When a part of the whol... |
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Appealing to Opposing AuthorityHere's a type of argument I use sometimes. I wanted to get some opinions on it, see if people thought it was a strong or fallacious argument. P1: A certain group of authority figures say that Y is true. P2: These experts are part of a group that i... |
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Is this relying on an ambigious definition to define "sexuality"?From here : IN response to me saying: So you conflate female power with being sexual. He responds: Yes I do conflate them because sexuality is part of person and they might express them self through their sexual... |