Further Fallacies

Question 1

misleading precision fallacy (aka false precision, fake precision, over-precision, spurious precision)

Answer 1

• Arguments where unneeded or unwarranted precision is used to sound “authoritative”.
• Ex: trump said specific number if cost of immigration to seem more official

Question 2

naturalisitic fallacy form and subform and example

Answer 2

• X is natural. Therefore X is true / good / right
• sub form: X is unnatural. Therefore X is false / bad / wrong
  ex: people think vaccines are bad bc they were invented in a lab, not natural.

Question 3

fallacy fallacy form and explanation

Answer 3

• The argument offered for X is a fallacy, therefore X is false.
• fallacy is used as reasoning not to believe what was said (as the fallacy)