TU QUOQUE FALLACY – YOU DO IT TOO!
Tu quoque is a logical fallacy I like to call the ‘you too’ fallacy. If you’re not acquainted with logical fallacies, check out the post ‘Beware of the Beast’
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Logic & Reasoning
How to improving logical reasoning.
APPEAL TO AUTHORITY
A logical fallacy that leverages the authority status of a personality to reject or accept a claim as true or false is known as an appeal to authority. Three variables must be present in an appeal to authority for the error to be legitimate. They are information, authority, and dismissal or acceptance.
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ARGUMENT FROM SILENCE
An argument from silence is a logical fallacy that uses the lack of a response to a claim to reject or accept the claim as true or untrue.
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ARGUMENT FROM INCREDULITY
An argument from incredulity uses the inability to comprehend or conceive how a claim may be true or untrue as the basis to reject or accept a claim as true.
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ARGUMENT FROM IGNORANCE
An argument from ignorance is a logical fallacy I like to call the ‘you can’t prove me wrong’ fallacy. You will understand why in a second. An argument from…
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IS MORALITY OBJECTIVE?
Is morality objective? No. I don’t think so. What better way to break the ice than with a moral dilemma? Let’s look at this dilemma that I stumbled over…
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BECOMING A STEELMAN – LEARNING TO UNLEARN
In our everyday conversations, we don’t usually steelman. What is the common approach of arguing? You make your point, and I respond with mine. Then you…
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BEWARE OF THE BEAST – AN INTRODUCTION TO LOGICAL FALLACIES
There are two types of logical fallacies: formal and informal.
Formal fallacies are fallacies that are based on the structure(form) of an argument. Informal..
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NO MONKEY GAMES!!!
Again, as you’d expect, the scientist sprays the ambitious monkey with cold water and all the other monkeys as well. At this point …that was the last attempt?
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