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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... |
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What is this logical fallacy called?What kind of logical fallacy would the following statement be classified as? "Tens of thousands of scientists have said X for over a thousand years, therefore X must be true." While supplying no evidence for their claim. I figure it could be appe... |
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Which Fallacy?Hi Bo, You're great. Which fallacies occurred below? In a TV Programme one Argued: "The age of the trees in the university where I teach is older than the age of the USA. That is why Iranians laugh at all the efforts of the USA to sanction or sub... |
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What fallacy is thisFrom here : Amid this seemingly endless political crusade, one notices a certain clown-car quality to the LGBTQIA2S+ coalition, which attracts a lot of people who are daft, demented, deranged, bonkers, berserk, off their rockers, nuttier t... |
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Assuming MotiveHey everyone, I was wondering if there is a specific logical fallacy related to attributing motive to someone without sufficient evidence. I am thinking especially of the interpretation of literature where a modern reader assumes the motives of an ... |
