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Wishbone R
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:15 pm


All the things we need to get to:

- What are Fallacies?

- Abstraction/Quoting Out of Context and Etymological Fallacy

- Appeal to Majority and Appeal to Force

- Appeal to Ridicule and Argument from Ridicule (different concepts)

- Appeal to Authority and Appeal to Celebrity

- Emotional Appeal, Appeal to Hatred, Appeal to Pride, Appeal to Pity, Appeal to Fear, and Appeal to Envy (Modern Death)

- Naturalistic Fallacy and Genetic Fallacy

- Fallacist's/Fallacy Fallacy

- Appeal to Ignorance (Intriguing)

- Circumstantial Ad Hominem and Abusive Ad Hominem (Intriguing)

- Red Herring

- Anecdotal Fallacy and Special Pleading

- False Dillema

- Sweeping Generalization and Hasty Generalization/Converse Accident

- Circular Argument and Ignoring the Counter-Evidence

- Ambiguity and Ambiguous Middle

- Fallacy of the Alternative Syllogism and Syllogistic Fallacy

- The Hitler Card/Godwin's Law

- Loaded language/Begging the Question, Question-Begging Analogies, and Equivocation

- Fallacy of Existential Assumption

- Guilt by Association Fallacy (Lord Setar)

- Two Wrongs Make a Right

- Probabilistic Fallacy

- Poisoning the Well and Wishful Thinking

- Slippery Slope Fallacy/Argument from Potential and Regressive Fallacy

- Unwarrented Contrast and Redefinition

- Straw Man

- Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy and Spurious Accuracy Fallacy

- Illicit Negative/Affirmative

- False Conversion (multiple forms)

- Post hoc and Tu Quoque

- Scope Fallacy

- Masked Man Fallacy

- Appeal to Probability

- Formal Fallacy and Informal Fallacy

- Base Rate Fallacy and Neglecting the Base Rate

- Commutation of Conditionals and Converting a Conditional

- Conjunction Fallacy and Denying a Conjunct

- Quantificational Fallacy and Illicit Quantifier Shift

- Denial of the Antecedent and Improper Transposition

- Asserting a Consequent and Appeal to Consequence

- Gambler's Fallacy

- Correlation vs. Causation

- Pascal's Wager (as originally written)

- Argument from Silence

- Russell's Teapot (Not a fallacy)

These are a little confusing, so I'm going to ask we all use a standard format. As follows:

Quote:
Name of Fallacy

Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description Description


Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples Examples

Related Fallacies: Link, Link, Link, Link, Link.


Of course, it's not as though you're writing this for your boss- don't worry too much about formal vs. informal diction, just make it legible.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:44 pm


Do we need to repost that which we had in the old guild, or is it being transferred by someone else?

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Wishbone R
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:31 pm


Aino Ailill
Do we need to repost that which we had in the old guild, or is it being transferred by someone else?


Please repost- no one else can move it.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:55 am


There's a few in there I'm not familiar with, so I'm not entirely sure if this one's been covered by a different name (or is an issue that's covered by something else, but... Correlation vs Causation?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:39 pm


Not sure where you might put links to external resources, but Nizkor is a must for this subforum (I've been using it to explain and explode fallacies on the Internet for about 10 years):


Nizkor Fallacies  
PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:44 pm


Uncle Jeff
Not sure where you might put links to external resources, but Nizkor is a must for this subforum (I've been using it to explain and explode fallacies on the Internet for about 10 years):


Nizkor Fallacies


We should probably have a thread for that.

I'll add the fallacies we don't have to the list- if you'd like, you can take the five examples of different kinds of fallacies and make them their own thread, since it's worth saying.

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