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What logical fallacy is this concerning Jan 6th?P1: That mob on Jan 6th couldn't have been MAGA. P2: If that mob really wanted to burn the capitol down, they would have destroyed the whole damn thing." C: Therefore, it couldn't have been MAGA. |
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Pretty sure multiple fallacies here?Can you detect any fallacies in this post: Human mind works in wonderous ways. For instance, it is well known that a claim repeated multiple times is seen as more truthful by default than a claim made once, even if in both cases the claim ... |
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Do you really think that YOU can school ME?Τwo people were arguing about wind turbines and whether they should be used or not. The first person was in favor of using them to reduce CO2 emmisions and the other one claimed that they destroy the natural environment (up in the mountain... |
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"Evidence Informed"Proponents of controversial Intervention X claim that X must be court ordered for the patient's own good, even though it undermines the patient's autonomy, and there are no risks to imminent safety of self or others; survivors of Intervention X clai... |
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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." ... |