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Possible fallacy regarding the political term flip-flopping?I have been seeing people use the term flip flopping incorrectly lately regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. My understanding is that Flip-flopping is usually only valid when its in regards to something subjective. For example, if a politician says... |
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Affirming the consequent?P1: Only Targaryens can ride dragons P2: Tyrion Lannister rode a dragon C: Therefore, Tyrion Lannister is Targaryen I know the fallacious form if A then B. B. Therefore, A is invalid. But, what if the premise is true, that is only Tragaryens can ... |
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Can subjectivity make a fallacy not a fallacy?Professional artist A creates paintings. Person 1: Artist A's artwork is bad because he is a Biden supporter. Now, I know this is usually a non sequitur fallacy because the two things are completely unrelated. But, since artwork... |
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Could this be begging the question?P1: All the people at the table had their heads shaved. P2: Jim was at the table. C: Therefore, Jim had his head shaved. |
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A error in reasoning about the pandemic that I see a lot lately.What fallacy might this be? It seems like a version of the scapegoat fallacy but not sure. A (Pandemics), causes B (federal government and democrats), to cause C (economic hardship, mandates, restrictions, closed schools etc). We d... |
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Fallacies involved in arguing for God or mythological charactersI've been thinking about the following arguments for a while: Person 1: Just like how the PhD thesis of Stephen Hawking is evidence that he was intelligent, so too, in a similar way, the universe is evidence that whatever the cause behind it ... |
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fallacy of denying induction as logical method without good reason.Not sure if my first post transferred, so here it is again. "INDUCTION MAY BE A NECESSARY THOUGHT PROCESS AND NO DOUBT IT PLAYS A ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF SOME GENERALIZATIONS. BUT IT IS NOT A LOGICAL PROCESS. THERE IS NO NECESSITY THAT THE N... |
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People who use Induction for deductive claims. How many fallacies is this?I've seen statements of people arguing against medical science in peer reviewed Journals by saying: Person 1: Vaccines might not work Person 2: How so? What about the mountain of data from so many peer reviewed sources? Person 1: Yeah that data m... |
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Question about modus tollensHi, I would like to know if this form of argument is valid or not: P1) If A is not true, then B is not true P2) B is true C1) A is true Thanks! |
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Presenting an impossible condition.I was in a disagreement with someone about speed limits, I went into great detail about what's been shown to exacerbates speed limit-non compliance, as in what leads to people paying less attention to speed limits as in arbitrary placing of boundari... |