Person A makes claim C about subject S. When a person falls prey to this fallacy, they are accepting a claim as true without there being adequate evidence to do so. More specifically, the person is accepting the claim because they erroneously believe that the person making the claim is a legitimate expert and hence...
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Description and examples of Personal Attack fallacy. A personal attack is committed when a person substitutes abusive remarks for evidence when attacking another person's claim or claims. This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because the attack is directed at the person making the claim and not the claim itself.
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www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/personal-attack.html
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The 'Attack the Person' fallacy is a form of distraction, forcing them into defense and away from their argument.
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It is not a logical fallacy to attack someone; the fallacy comes from assuming that a personal attack is also necessarily an attack on that person's
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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"OMG Zombies are attacking the person above you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" MySpace Forum. Discuss new topics, post a thread and comment on a message...
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It should be noted that in many cases it is not particularly obvious that the person committing the fallacy is attempting to support a claim. In many cases, the user of the fallacy will appear to be attempting to move people to take an action, such as buying a product or fighting in a war.
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Description and examples of Slippery Slope fallacy. The Slippery Slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.
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www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 More Attacking the Person by Hillary's Staffers The Clinton machine is hunkering down, going into defense mode. As this article in The Hill, a leading source of "inside the DC beltway news" shows, Hillary's staff now claims her debacle was caused not by her behavior or her inability to...
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www.scsuscholars.com/2007/11/more-attacking-person-by-h...
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This fallacy is committed when a person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough. It has the following form: The person committing the fallacy is misusing the following type of reasoning, which is known variously as Inductive Generalization, Generalization,
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