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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... |
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Is dismissal of an theory on the basis of implausibility committing the fallacy of Argument from Incredulity?Is dismissal of an theory on the basis of implausibility committing the fallacy of Argument from Incredulity ? In discussion on my question regarding the terms conspiracy theory/theorist and the fallacies, loaded question and strawman , ROTE stated ... |
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Unfalsifiable StatementsDo unfalsifiable questions violate the Law of Excluded Middle? Is there a third option answer to an unfalsifiable question besides yes or no? Example: God exists, yes or no? |
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What's the difference between 'affirming the consequent' and 'commutation of conditionals'?If 'affirming the consequent' is, If P then Q Q Therefore P and 'commutation of conditionals' is, If P then Q Therefore if Q then P What contexts are they each best suited for? Is there something here about whether there is a causal relationshi... |
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Is this sound reasoning?Austin and Tom are brothers. They share a washroom, but the washroom is dirty. The parents want to figure out who is the culprit, so they allow Tom to use their washroom. Turns out the parent's washroom is clean, so the parents conclude that Austin ... |
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New Sub-Category of the Ad-Hominem Fallacy: Appeal to the Unqualified PersonAppeal to the Unqualified Person : A logical fallacy where [opposite to the Appeal to Authority fallacy]- instead of accepting an argument because it comes from “authority”, in this fallacy, the argument is rejected [refused to be heard ... |
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Do the terms “conspiracy theory/theorist” embody two fallacies: loaded question and strawman?Loaded question: The use of the term "theory" tends to imply that the event in question does not have overwhelming evidence showing the crime of conspiracy has been committed. The use of the term "conspiracy theorist" implies that the person critici... |
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Name this fallacyAdvocates of gun control often note how certain nations with strict gun laws have low incidences of "gun violence". However, often times the nations that they reference have never had/don't have a high rate of violent crime in general to begin with.... |
