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Overview - informal fallacies - Chapter 5 - Critical Thinking
2 step screening strategy applies...,
Informal fallacies larger context...,
Strategy to avoid informal fallac...
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Subjectivist Fallacy (truth is independent of belief & feelings)
Just because you believe somethin...,
Objective truth is independent of...,
Personal subjective experience do...
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Genetic Fallacy
Origin of beliefs can be unrelate...,
Origin can include cause original...,
Origin is legitimate if relevant ...
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Ad Hominem Fallacy (when character Is irrelevant)
Appealing negatively to person s ...,
Also known as fallacy of relevanc...,
Can be either positive or negativ...
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Appeal to Emotions Fallacy
Attempting to use emotional attit...,
Many variations appeal to pity ap...,
Cliche this is a matter of life a...
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Appeal to Force Fallacy
Presents threat fear of force for...
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Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy (absence of evidence)
Absence of evidence is not eviden...,
Negative evidence is different th...
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Appeal to Novelty Fallacy (allure of a new idea)
Appeal to the excitement of the new,
Attempting to convince with newne...
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Appeal to the People Fallacy (because others believe It)
Argue that claim is true because ...,
Speak to snobbery elite group sel...,
Appeal to vanity beautiful people...
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Appeal to Unqualified Authority Fallacy
Advertising 9 out of 10 doctors c...,
Irrelevant or unqualified authority
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Fallacy of Accident (fire) (principal held generally)
Applies to principal held general...,
Screaming fire in a theatre,
Cliche boys will be boys
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False Dilemma Fallacy (incomplete choices)
Presenting limited choice options...,
Asking to draw conclusion based o...,
Sometimes there are only 2 releva...
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Semantic And Syntactic Fallacies (multiple meanings)
Semantic words with multiple mean...,
Syntactic phrases with multiple m...,
Solution add qualifying words to ...
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Begging the Question Fallacy (presupposing conclusion)
Assuming what we want to prove wi...,
Embedding assumption within premi...,
2 common usages of term logical s...
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Question Begging Sentences (loaded question)
Question that presupposes an unsu...
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Missing the Point Fallacy (irrelevant conclusion)
Conclusion that does not follow p...
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Fallacy of Composition (great players = great team)
Reasoning about parts and wholes,
Inference that features or qualit...,
Team of great players will be gre...
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Fallacy of Division (great team = great players)
Inverse of fallacy of composition...
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Is-Ought Fallacy (inference from facts to values)
Wrongly drawing a conclusion abou...,
Normative versus descriptive,
Inference from facts to values
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Appeal to Tradition Fallacy (is-ought to not change)
Variant of is ought fallacy using...,
Cliche it s always been done this...
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Quoting Out of Context Fallacy (switched meaning)
Misleadingly using single sentenc...,
Something actually said but portr...
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Red Herring Fallacy (distract - irrelevant premise)
Distracting from relevancy by int...
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Straw Man and Fidelity Fallacy (unfaithful Refutation)
Offering characterized version of...,
Used to refute argument with unfa...
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Hasty Fallacization Fallacy (principal of charity)
Easy to discover fallacies princi...,
Context right time and place for ...,
Charity take person s argument se...
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Causation - Post Hoc - After, Because - fallacy
Sequence is not causation just be...,
Casual fallacies are unique and d...,
Causal fallacies are still inform...
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Causation - Cum Hoc - Accidental - Fallacy
Accidental no causal relationship...,
Confounding variable found within...
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Causation - Simpson’s Paradox - Data Sets - Fallacy
Data sets when combining or separ...,
Illusion of causation resulting f...
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Causation - Gambler’s Fallacy
Independent events when there is ...,
Dependent events when the odds as...
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Causation - Base Rate Fallacy
Ignoring normal pre existing rate...
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Causation - Slippery Slope Fallacy
Arguing that performing an act wi...,
Reductio ad absurdum reduction to...
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Hasty Generalization Fallacy
Using weak or biased data to draw...,
Cliche if it s too good to be tru...
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