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See avoiding the issue and possibly red herring , depending on the direction of the diversion. |
answered on Saturday, Jul 30, 2022 07:20:00 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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I'll try to be accurate with my fallacy classifications. Example 1: Here's John's argument: Here's Matt's response: The question is diverted from honesty to being supportive. This is a red herring because the diversion has the intent of switching the discussion. Example 2: Matt's response: The argument is not actually diverted to another topic like in the previous example, but it's avoided all together by dismissing what John said. This is avoiding the issue. Note that the mechanism to avoid the issue is by providing an enthymeme: E: Since John is no one to judge, I can be dishonest. Premise E would be close to committing the two wrongs make a right fallacy. I say "close to committing" because the definition technically would imply that the same action against Matt would have to be made. Example 3. Teacher's argument: Jenny's response: Jenny changed premise 1 to get to her conclusion and therefore committed the strawman fallacy. The question was also diverted because Jenny skipped the question by distorting what was said. There's actually more to be said with this situation. It all depends on what Jenny meant to do. I just had a discussion on whether or not a fallacy of ambiguity fallacy is made if the hearer makes that misrepresentation on their own. For example, if Jenny honestly thought that by "asking for help" really means "trying to copy" (one might just be asking for clues while the other might be straight up plagiarism). Example 4: Teacher's argument: Jenny's response: I'm phrasing Jenny's conclusion this way because I also just had a discussion on the appeal to possibility. I believe that in fact, that's what Jenny is accusing the teacher to be committing. But it works only because Jenny ignores premise 2 to divert the question. This would be selective attention. As somebody already pointed out, we should also consider questions that seem to be fallacious themselves. The famous one is "have you stopped beating your wife?" With no context, this question might be begging the question. The questioner might be begging for the respondent to answer a presupposition without, perhaps, providing any support to that presupposition. So it is rational to divert it. Case in point, I recommend to frame your questions taking two things into consideration: is my question too broad and maybe I want to ask if any fallacies may arise? When is an apparent fallacy not fallacious; that is, are there any exceptions to the fallacy? |
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