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Argumentation from Silence
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Selective Evidence
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Petitio Principii
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Complex Question
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Quoting Out of Context
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Fallacy of Oversimplification |
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The False Dilemma (Black and White Fallacy)
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Fallacy of Oversimplification |
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Special Case
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Tu Quoque (Two wrongs make a right)
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The Genetic Fallacy
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Ad Populum
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Equivocation
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Straw Man
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Hyperbole
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Slippery Slope
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Category Mistake
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Argumentation from Silence
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| When a person is silent about X, we cannot conclude that he does not believe X or that X is not true. |
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| It consists simply in referrencing only to the evidence that tends to support your hypothesis and ignores the evidence that refutes it. |
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| Has to do with assuming what you set out to prove. |
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| This fallacy consists of asking in a question something which cannot be answered without "begging another question." |
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| Ignoring the context of a particular passage or situation, the result of which is distortion. |
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| This fallacy consists in not allowing for gradation or means between extremes. |
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| It falsely argues that because something is true in a special case, it is simply true. |
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| Consists of accusing your critic of the same thing your critic accuses of you. |
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| Consists in refuting an idea by showing suspicious psychological origin of it. |
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| This fallacy appeals to the authority of the people or what is popular. |
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| It is the fallacy that uses the same term in two or more different senses in the course of an argument. |
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| Consists in refuting an unfairly weak, stupid or ridiculous version of your opponent's idea instead of the more reasonable idea he actually holds. |
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| This fallacy is concerned with exaggeration and media hype. |
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| This fallacy refers to the domino effect; if you do one action, it will effect another action until something bad happens. |
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| This is the "apples and oranges" error, it confuses two ideas that don't belong together. |
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