One would hardly expect to meet a fallacy as blatantly unsatisfying as “I am right because reasons.” Alas, as so often, that unexpectedness does half its work for it.
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Free debate is a good thing, but it is hard to encourage after an experience with a “sea lion”; this damages the communication skills of everyone involved.
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Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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The slippery slope fallacy contends that a given idea, choice, or action will behave like Acme Rocket Skates.
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How do you handle a fallacy that’s right sometimes? Is it even still a fallacy?
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Many fallacies are little more than failures to speak to the point; straw men exhibit this to the nth degree.
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Sorting Through Sophistries:The Know-Nothings—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard It is said, and with truth, that numbers don’t lie. Unfortunately, this is only because numbers don’t speak: people, who
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Sorting Through Sophistries:The Know-Nothings—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard One wouldn’t think that ignorance, which is by definition a lack of something, would ramify into a variety of subtly
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The problem with fallacies like cherry-picking is that every word, sentence, book, and thought is meaningful only within its context.
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A catch in the whole system of logic is the same thing as what makes it work in the first place: it is no “respecter of persons.”
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