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Is Virtue Signaling In An Argument A Fallacy?In answer to the question posted earlier today, Dr. Bo answered with the historian’s fallacy . In his discussion of that fallacy, Dr. Bo warns against "Virtue Signaling", which I see is defined as "the sharing of one's point of view on ... |
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You should've thought of thatWhen someone complains about the consequences of their actions, they often get told that they should've thought of that earlier. Is that a fallacy by any chance? Because I don't think it's reasonable to always expect someone to think of everything t... |
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Is this an example of hasty generalization?Specifically, I came upon this post while scrolling through Instagram. The text in the post reads - “You are getting attached again. Did you forget what happened the last time?” While in general this seems to be cogent enough, I am not... |
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Dismissal of peer reviewed papers as Appeal To AuthorityI present a journal published peer reviewed paper. The other person claims it is an appeal to authority. He further says that any experiments I have not done myself is an appeal to authority and will be dismissed. I run into this over a... |
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Existential FallacyOne interesting fallacy that is rarely discussed is the existential fallacy . It is a fallacy in formal logic, specifically Syllogistic (or Categorical) Logic, that provides, in essence that a universal statement such as “all X” d... |
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Is this ad hominem?If someone is being toxic in a debate, is pointing out that they are toxic an ad hominem? |
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I am confused about this fallacy.Sorry but something is not clicking when i read the page about, "Shoehorning". It is probably mostly because it sounds like something that has already been covered, trying to, "stuff in" your narrative would sound like: cherry picking if you are... |
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WhataboutismThis is not a question but an observation from today's news. Whataboutism is a variant of ad hominem (tu quoque) , that basically says “you do it too.” (or "did it too"). With Tu Quoque, however, there may be evidence in support ... |
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Burden of proof and Occam’z razorYes this is directly related to my very previous question and I can’t help but ask this one too so please bear with me. Very specifically , who has the burden of proof? If someone claims something ordinary like owning a cat, and... |
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Affirming the consequent, evidence and probabilityI just came to realize that most of my day to day conclusions are actually the result of affirming the consequent! For example, “If my family ate dinner, then the dishes in the sink would be dirty. The dishes in the sink are dirty, therefore ... |