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A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and
they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people.
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a dangerous and irreversible course: the slippery slope from narcotics. toprison.[image]
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| a request or reference to some person or authority for adecision, corroboration, judgment, etc.[image] |
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agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state orcondition of being parallel.
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| a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that preventsunprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice.[image] |
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| Theprocess of developing or presenting an argument; reasoning.[image] |
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| characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.[image] |
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| an informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficientevidence—[image] |
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post hoc, ergo proctor hoc
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the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
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| State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof. |
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An assertion of the truth of something, typically one that is disputed or in doubt.
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A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands; a thing conceded.
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| assuming either that properties shared between two situations or existents will continue to be fo[image]und indefinitely |
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| A quality that evokes pity or sadness.[image] |
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| a kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general propositions that are derived from specific examples.[image] |
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| is reasoning which constructs or evaluates deductive arguments[image] |
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| information that is acquired by observation or experimentation.[image] |
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Proof of a claim scientifically/reasonably verifiable.
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refers to evidence from anecdotes.
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Arising from or appealing to the emotions and not reason or logic.
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The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
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