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Any logical fallacy in Pete Buttigieg's rhetoric on abortion?Pete Buttigieg said this about limits on late-term abortion: "I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line, that we've gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line, and I trust women to draw the l... |
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Question about unfalsifiability fallacy.What is the difference between an unfalsifiable argument, a defeasible argument and a indefeasible argument? Are they all the unfalsifiability fallacy? |
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Is my teacher wrong?Teacher: why weren't you in school Me: my stomach was hurting so I stayed home Teacher: prove your stomach hurt Me: That's impossible because there's no way to prove my stomach hurt, besides me saying that my stomach hurt Teacher: so then ... |
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Is this a non-sequiturI saw this argument floating on reddit and wanted to know whether it commits the non-sequitur fallacy or not 1. Affirmative action is racist against Asians because it creates unfairness to them based on their race. 2. Asian Americans who support af... |
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Hate speech argument fallacy?I can't quite put my finger on it but I can't help but think this argumentative statement is fallacious: Hate speech cannot be made illegal in a consistent way: outlawing hate speech would be an expression of hatred towards hate speech, wh... |
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If you do X correctly you will never make a mistake.One of my jobs is operating a wood chipper. Sometimes it gets clogged and takes an hour of painstaking work to unclog. My boss told me that if I fed branches into the chipper correctly it would never get clogged. This mostly sounds... |
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AbortionI think the current understanding of "my body, my choice" is misplaced. Pregnancy is not a choice, it is one of the possible consequences of choosing to have sex. "My body, my choice" should be applied to the choice of having sex. What ... |
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Does this come off as a slothful induction?From here : “National sex education standards right now for K-3 say that gender ideology, that those children need to know by third grade that you can be a boy or a girl, neither or both,” Descovich said. “That is very concerning... |
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What is causal argument |
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Looking for examples of the slippery slope fallacyHey All, I'm making a resource for high school students to learn about the slippery slope fallacy and I'm looking for some real-life examples to use such as interviews, online articles or videos. Since I'm trying to make it broadly accessible, I'd ... |