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COMMON FALLACIES IN REASONING ... 20. HYPOTHESIS CONTRARY TO FACT: ... The fallacy also involves treating hypothetical situations as if they were fact.
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Contrary-to-Fact Hypothesis This fallacy consists in treating a hypothetical claim as if it were a statement of fact by making a claim, without sufficient evidence, about what would have happened in the past if other conditions had been present or an event that will occur in the future.
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Is this fallacy a contrary to fact hypothesis or a false dilemma or something else?The difference in the outcome was Jefferson's missed field goal. If he had put it through... ... By Anonymous Asked May 16 2008 5:44PM ... on May 24, 2008 at 5:40 pm Permalink;
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Examples of hypothesis contrary to fact? ... What is contrary to fact hypothesis? ... What are some examples of hypothesis contrary to fact?
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contrary to fact - going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) ... contrary to fact; contrary to good business; contrary to good taste; contrary to law; contrary to popular belief; contrary to popular belief; contrary to popular opinion; contrary to professional ethics; contrary to reason;
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contrary to fact mean? ... • CONTRARY TO FACT (adjective); The adjective CONTRARY TO FACT has 1 sense: ... 1. going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis);
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Results indicate that the 10 year olds, and to a lesser extent the 13 year olds, did have difficulty in accepting contrary-to-fact premises as a basis for reasoning. The 15 and 18 year olds did not, but did find reasoning correctly more difficult with contrary-to-fact premises. ... sapir-whorf_hypothesis...
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n. an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much ... n. exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty" ... n. a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
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THE MEAN GREEN HYPOTHESIS: FACT OR FICTION? By Natasha Todorovic; (This paper examines the MGM (“mean Green meme”) construct which has been injected into the Spiral Dynamics® (SD) model. It will introduce new data about this hypothesis and is geared towards those with some understanding of ... On the contrary,
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"As if" should alert the writer that a "contrary-to-fact" construction, requiring the subjunctive mood, will follow. ... And even if it is obligatory in some situations, is it obligatory in the context in which I was using it, which did not involve a judgment on my part that the supposition was indeed "contrary-to-fact"?
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