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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... |
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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... |
