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Indentify the logical fallacy hereI’ve never been hungry, and neither has anyone in my village. |
| asked on Tuesday, Oct 26, 2021 09:20:27 PM by Shawn | |
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Also would be fallacy of composition . |
| answered on Wednesday, Oct 27, 2021 08:55:04 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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| answered on Tuesday, Oct 26, 2021 10:41:05 PM by Jason Mathias | ||||||||
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I feel like this is could be considered either anecdotal (This is true for me, so it must be true for everyone) or composition (This is true for part, so it must be true for the whole). |
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| answered on Thursday, Oct 28, 2021 08:26:23 AM by Rick Barry | ||||
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This is more precisely an Appeal to Anecdote, Anecdotal Fallacy and a subset of hasty generalization. At first glance, it may seem like a Fallacy of Composition except for some critical elements: In a Fallacy of Composition, we have to at least have some evidence that what is being claimed of the part is true. ( See Dr. Bo's syllogism) A is part of B. (He claims to be a part of a village) A has property X. (He claims he and the village are not hungry) Therefore, B has property X. (He claims that he, the village, and the world are also not hungry). The claim is anecdotal and unpersuasive. We have no way of determining that it is true since the anecdote could be made up, misconstrued, a statistical outlier, or just a distracting debate strategy. The second claim about others in the village is one of Amazing Familiarity and hearsay so it can be readily dismissed as unsupported fiction. Since what is being claimed is anecdotal, hearsay, and amazingly familiar it cannot be relied upon to be true of either the part or the whole. |
| answered on Thursday, Nov 04, 2021 02:02:49 PM by Mchasewalker | |
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