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What’s the fallacy in this argument?When I was a little girl my grandpa took my out shooting in his backyard. I used to hit food cans with BB guns. He was obviously the person Barrack Obama had in mind when he famously and derisively mocked gun owners and other rural people as clinger... |
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The, "Asking for a friend" phrase.I have noticed a lot of social media memes use the phrase, "asking for a friend" after they have hidden a false or misleading suggestion/claim into a question. The phrase seems to be used as a subtile manipulation tactic to help convince people of t... |
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Is this a thought terminating cliche“Only you are responsible for your own actions”. A common saying that seems overtly dismissive of any context of why someone committed their actions. It’s just the same thing is as saying your actions don’t make y... |
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Talking about your point of view like it's axiomatic.A bit like saying, "I don't know why you're questioning this, you're so obviously wrong, you're making yourself look stupid" with little to nothing to back it up. Or there's making out that what you're disputing isn't generally disputed. Or just mak... |
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Is there a correlation causation fallacy?For example: Republicans blaming Biden for high gas prices because of correlation not causation. They conflate the two and assume correlation is causation. The correlation being gas prices went up during Biden's presidency. Therefore, Biden m... |
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How to refute an argument based on “It makes me feel good what’s wrong with that”?I noticed perhaps when I push an argument to absurdity maybe it comes off as condescending or equivocating. Or perhaps it goes right Over their head. Someone told me that if thinking homeopathy makes them feel better why is that bad? I told taking p... |
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They all disagree so its all bunkWhat if I said that the study of economics is pointless because everyone disagrees and therefore the whole subject is bunk? This is bad reasoning but is it a fallacy? Mathematicians agree that 2+2=4 but there is much less consensus over ... |
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Inquiry regarding fallacies involving likelihoodWhat exactly makes a theory with less commitments more likely? How did we ever come to that conclusion, and couldn’t it be wrong? Im just a layman in this field, humor me. Thanks. |
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When is a “what if” a fallacy?I hate claims that are presented to be objective but then is based on speculative “what if’s”or highly unlikely but possible, it seems like wishful thinking or usually being contrarian for the sake of it. Conspiracy theories of cou... |
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I’m not sure of the argument from ignorance and of the concept of probability.Ok so first I will ask about the argument from ignorance and then about probability. From what I understand about the argument from ignorance, it’s concluding that A is true because it has not been disproven or that A is false because... |
