Logical Fallacies
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| show | An "attack against the man" personal attack on individuals instead issues. Watch these in political campaigns!Concentrate on response to the premises of the argument, not the speaker or writer. Personal attack irrelevant argument nd weakens ur credibility
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| Hasty Generalization(sampling) eg:"The British are all a bunch of snobs."(Are all British people snobs?) | show 🗑
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| show | "It does not follow." A false conclusion does not logically follow the reasoning provided(and often overgeneralized or overemotional) eg:"My ancestors were communists;therefore he will make an excellent tennis player." May true but no logic to each other.
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| Red Herring/Arguing off the point(Ignoratio ELenchi) eg "Its ridiculous to worry about cleaning up our country's polluted waters so many innocent people are being killed by international terrorists" | show 🗑
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| show | "After this, therefore because of this." A fallacy due to misplaced cause or effect. The mere fact that one thing takes place 1st and another thing follows does not necessarily mea that the 1st even caused the 2nd
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| show | The conclusion simply repeats or rephrases the beginning assumption. Thus nothing is really proven.
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| show | highly emotional 1 side reasoning that does not offer an alternative action or middle ground on an argument. Either-Or forces people to chooose between 2 alternatives when more than 2 alternatives may exit
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| Bandwagon | show 🗑
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| show | A fallacy brought about due to an unknowlegeable authority. Often when a celebrity does a paid promotion or a foreign medical research group attests to a product, they are trying to dazzle the consumer.
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