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Logic is circular therefore it is invalidThis is an argument I have encountered several times and I always find it difficult to respond to. P1: Logic is required to justify logic P2: Using logic to justify logic is circular reasoning P3: Circular reasoning is invalid C: Logic is invali... |
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are there any fallacies?Yesterday during lunch my little niece made an argument as to why pop quizzes are not a good idea for both students and teachers. To be completely fair, I feel there's something wrong with it but I can't quite point my finger at what it is exactly. ... |
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Is the inference that journalists were speaking candidly when alluding to controlled demolition on 9/11 a false premise?In a video made to Tom Petty's, Free Fallin' focused on the collapse of WTC-7 we see a number of reporters allude to controlled demolition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgx8Uwo-Vxc This is what they say: Vince DeMentri, WCBS reporter “It ... |
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Controversial Logic questions regarding Ukraineif this is too controversial and it gets taken down I’ll understand: I can point out logical fallacies all day in U.S foreign policy but please put your political opinions aside for a moment and just look at what’s being said. I s... |
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When a small percentage is presented as a normalityWhat logical fallacy, if any, is it if one treats a tiny percentage of category X as a sign that Y is normal? Example: 5000 apples 4800 of those apples are red 200 of the apples are green Therefore green apples are normal. I would think this i... |
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My friend says you are interpreting it wronglyWhile there are a lot of Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit that peddle pseudoscience, my friend says that the translation provided is minimal and has a lot of other meanings as well. I am unable to find the fallacy in his argument because these translate... |
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Redirecting the accusationI'd like to know the logical fallacy of redirecting my accusation towards myself. I accused a person of XYZ (which is evidential) but he accused me of the same thing XYZ back as a scapegoat, and of course the argument isn't going anywhere. ... |
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Can you help me assign the logical fallacyI would apprentice help pinpointing the logical fallacy A: says action can be committed by accident or incompetence B: compares to a crime and states extreme or uses laws as justification to be harsh to incompetence while as it seems, after ... |
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Does the use of the term false flag tend to create in our minds the fallacy, false dilemma?Does the use of the term false flag tend to create in our minds the fallacy, false dilemma? The meaning given for false flag is “an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another p... |
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Can you help me name this fallacy?Since fallacies seem to rely precisely on the structure of the argumentation itself, I am having trouble placing this one, though it seems adjacent to many familiar ones. It's essentially like an "anyone else would know better" fallacy. When an ind... |
