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wrongly accused of cherry pickingIn an online discussion I confronted myself with someone that has very different ideas from me. She accused me of Cherry Picking, but as I later demostrated, there is a whole corpe of scientific evidence and international bodies that support my thes... |
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The people you vote kill people at the borders and you are worried about this graffitiToday I saw a graffiti on the inside wall of a university class, saying: "The people you vote kill people at the borders and you are worried about this graffiti" This would make sense only if someone was able to worry about one thing at a time, so... |
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So children need a mother and father, and not just loving parents in general?From here : Same-sex parenting is an abusive practice whereby two gay adults contrive to deprive a helpless child of the love and support of a mother or father. This is making a lot of assumptions, like a child NEEDS EXACTLY BOTH at the ... |
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Can Deductive arguments change in circumstances?“All Wars end by Negotiating, therefore we need to negotiate with Russia.” I think it’s a none sequitor and the fact the term Negotiating is extremely broad, which can mean anything from Unconditional surrender to prolonged... |
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Does the Statement “There are No facts, only Opinions” disprove it self?I’ve had people say this to me with such confidence and I’m always blown away unless I’m missing something. What’s stranger to me is that this Statement is always used as like a last line of defense to me it refutes what ever... |
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Is there such as thing as the "ill-informed opponent" fallacy?What name is given to the fallacy of assuming your opponent holds their position, only because they don't have all the facts? I don’t mean the fallacy of not having all the facts. I mean a fallacy you have about your opponent. If I had to th... |
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Stating the ObviousI don't know if this quite qualifies as a fallacy, but it's something I see fairly often. Someone will state something that is incredibly obvious in order to refute a comparatively complex position, as if to make it seem like that fact had not been ... |
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Absence of termPlease name the fallacy involved when an assertion is based on the absence of a specific term in a written text, even though the concept is necessarily implied by the text's data. |
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Are fallacies restricted to arguments only, or is it probable that they need not be one?I’ve been hearing that no argument indicates no fallacy. I disagree with this claim; furthermore, it sounds more so; dichotomous and compositionist. How do you explain fallacies such as loaded questions, red herrings, dicto simpliciter, strawm... |
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Mindreading as a fallacyI've seen this bad argument a number of times, but can't find a fallacy listed anywhere that really fits it. That is, claiming to know (with weak or no evidence) the thoughts/feelings/motivations of another person, and using them to support or show ... |
