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| Fallacy occurs when an arguement is presented that is self-contradictory or self defeating. The person is thus inconsistent because he or she says or argues one thing and then does the opposite. |
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| Fallacy occurs when a person assumes the truth of the premise and then proceeds to a conclusion without testing the validity or rationality of that premise. The premise is so questionable (based on such scanty evidence) that it is not even worth considering the conclusion. |
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Fallacy occurs when an arguer concludes that one thing causes another simply because the two are associated on a regular basis, or because something occurred after something else. - Thus, A is the cause of B simply because they are associate on a regular basis, or because B occurred after A.
- The error being made is that a causal connection is being drawn from inadequate evidence
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| Questionable or Unknowable Statistics |
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| Fallacy occurs when someone bases an argument upon statistics, which for any number of reasons, may be false or misleading. |
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| Fallacy occurs when someone bases an argument upon statistics, which for any number of reasons, may be false or misleading. |
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| Fallacy occurs when an arguer makes a generalization or reaches a conclusion based on a sample that does not accurately reflect the characteristics of the whole group from which it was taken. |
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| This fallacy assumes that an item has a particular quality because some of its parts have that quality. |
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| Fallacy occurs when someone assumes that all the individual parts of an item have a quality because the item as a whole has the quality. |
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| Fallacy occurs when someone bases an argument on the possibility of an outcome, not on the probability of an outcome. |
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