Description and examples of Post Hoc fallacy. ... Not surprisingly, many superstitions are probably based on Post Hoc reasoning. For example, suppose a person buys a good luck charm, does well on his exam, and then concludes that the good luck charm caused him to do well.
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In rhetoric, a fallacy is a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning in argumentation. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (e.g. a...
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Fallacious reasoning keeps us from knowing the truth, and the inability to think critically makes us vulnerable to manipulation by those skilled in the art of rhetoric. ... If a fallacy is an error of reasoning, then strictly speaking such arguments are not fallacious; their reasoning, their logic, is sound. However,
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A selection of articles related to Fallacious Reasoning ... A Wisdom Archive on Fallacious Reasoning ... Fallacious Reasoning: Encyclopedia II - Oriana Fallaci - Controversy...
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Ad Hominem is not fallacious if the attack goes to the credibility of the argument. ... reasoning in a circle. The thing to be proved is used as one of your assumptions. For example: "We must have a death penalty to discourage violent crime". (This assumes it discourages crime.) Or, "The stock market fell because of a...
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A war based on fallacious reasoning; By Erich Marquardt ; Last Wednesday, US President George W Bush admitted there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had any role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
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Christopher D. Sessums is plugged into the internet, an edublogger. Don Tapscott is a writer of business books about the internet. Until Twitter, these two worlds never met. Now Tapscott has discovered the university. ... He tweets: "I'm writing a major article on the coming crisis of The University. ... Other sources?" Sessums,
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This fallacy, a form of fallacious equation, is the error of presuming that God's work is limited to the formal program of one human organization or group of related organizations or, on the flip side, that all persons who are in right relationship to God will necessarily be obedient members of one human organization...
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He describes each one in detail, and explains how it works (and how people fall prey to fallacious reasoning). He gives advice on fallacy avoidance. Such advice is extremely useful, not only to the skeptic, but to the average person as well.
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