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Ad hominemIs there a specific name for an ad hominem fallacy where someone targets traits that they don't even know that the other person has? For instance, I've seen it happen where they make an assumption about the size of the other person's certain anatomi... |
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Black people don’t like Kanye WestI have a far left Black friend who told me that, “Black people don’t like Kanye West”. There are a lot of things wrong with this sentence, such as the fact that one far left Black person does not speak for all Black people, b... |
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Ben and Jerry's Fallacy?The owners of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream are boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. In this video - Ben and Jerry: Hypocrites? - a woman suggests they're hypocrites because they aren't also boycotting Georgia and Texas, whe... |
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Absolute, and, Total DenialMy question is this: if, someone resorts to outright denial (I have in mind, a friend, who will take this stance, whenever the topic of biblical error/contradiction, comes up), is this a ' logical fallacy ' - by any stretch? It seems so, to me, but ... |
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A Logical analysis of this argument in the Rittenhouse trial."Mr. Rittenhouse, why didn't you let the person trying to kill you kill you before you decided to defend yourself." Seems like a presupposition that the person he killed was going to kill him. After all, that assumption is unknowable and we cant... |
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When logic fallacy is when a Conspiracy theorist implies Peer reviewed, double blind Studies with huge sample sizes are forged to an agenda ?I understand their trying to “imply” bias for vaccine studies something similar to bias news sources spouting what ever narrative. This just seems like an unfalsifiable claim with the statically probability that somehow all these studies... |
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fallacy questionbeen looking at some covid related stuff and have been a usual seeing people saying that the cdc is unreliable and so without giving anything to support it, wondering what fallacy this commits? |
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A question about the genetic fallacyHello! I was wondering if this applies to the genetic fallacy: 1) Group A is very virtuous and pious. 2) Therefore, what Group A says is true. Or is this another type of fallacy? Regards. |
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A proposal for a new logical fallacy, or does it already exist?Good Evening, Is there already a kind of fallacy that describes this? if so, I cannot find it: Someone assumes an idea and makes other ideas backed by ideas to infinity having no true beginning or end like a line, and all ideas made/used are loose... |
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argument for God?I know this is a very controversial topic and I hope no one takes it as an attack. That being said, how would you respond to a circular argument or to someone who won't/can't see his or her argument is as such? I had a conversation with someone and... |
