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| Inferring from whole to parts |
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| Inferring from parts to wholes |
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| Playing off different meanings of words |
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| Playing up or playing down someone else's meanings, in order to make their claims either ridiculously big or small |
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| Where there's no real evidential connection to the conclusion |
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| Riling up audience instead of using reasoning |
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| A fog-cloud of totally irrelevant claims |
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| Appeal to popularity (Ad Populum) |
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| Inferring from lots of people believing a claim, to the conclusion that that claim is true |
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| Basically appeal to popularity, but across time |
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| Inferring that a claim is false because it is being asserted by an unreliable source |
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| Inferring that a claim is false, because is comes from a person or people w/ bad qualities accusations of hypocrisy regarding ethical claims. (tu quo que) |
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