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Concerns formal (syllogistic) fallacies, informal (rhetorical) fallacies, tactical misdirection, and errors in logic or reasoning more broadly put.
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What's so fallacious about the recourse to authority fallacy?
There's nothing wrong with referring to experts in the field to support your reasoning. In fact it's how our society builds knowledge. The appeal to authority fallacy occurs when the expertise of the …
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Is/should "appeal to scientificity" be considered a fallacy?
Your examples don't support your argument. First you talk about science, but your example is about being mathematically correct. Science, I hope you know is about more than just math. Then you equate …
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Does the Fallacy Fallacy make logic useless?
Fallacies are errors in reasoning and you can point out that someone made an invalid argument. But claims can still be true at the end of the day (through other possibly valid arguments). …
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If a person claims to know anything could it be disproven by saying 'prove that we are not i...
No, that argument is not logically correct because knowledge need not be absolute, but can be relative. To know the sky is blue means to connect the perception of the atmosphere that we call the sky w …
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