False Analogy ... Questionable Analogy ... This is a very common fallacy, but "False Analogy", its common name, is very misleading. Analogies are neither true nor false, instead they come in degrees from near identity to extreme dissimilarity. Here are two important points about analogy:
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Faulty Analogy occurs when an analogy is proposed which either contains false comparisons, or leaves out important differences that make the analogy weak. ...
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I really need help. Explanations would be very hel ... -Faulty Causality; -Begging the Question; -Equivocation; -Non Sequitur; -The Straw Man; -Faulty Analogy; 1)"Leave no child behind." (George Bush policy and slogan); 2) "It's the economy, stupid." (sign on the wall at Bill Clinton's campaign headquarters);
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Much of what we "know" is by analogy to something else. That is why so much of what is said and written is couched in those terms. But that is also dangerous, because any analogy, however helpful, is misleading if pushed too far or used in the wrong context.
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The Marshall Plan analogy is flawed. What Rice misses is that the Marshall Plan was not a strategy to win the war. It was a plan to aid war torn Europe in recovering from economic chaos and poverty after Germany's defeat.;
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Description and examples of Hasty Generalization fallacy. ... Description of Hasty Generalization ... Also Known as: Fallacy of Insufficient Statistics, Fallacy of Insufficient Sample, Leaping to A Conclusion, Hasty Induction.
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Holocaust Revisionism and Creationism: Shermer's Faulty Analogy ... As we shall soon see, this is an excellent example the fallacy of “faulty analogy.” ... This is an excellent example of the fallacy of “faulty analogy,” because the supposedly analogous things have more differences than similarities.
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e. Sophistry: Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies; Faulty Reasoning. ... “An argument from analogy claims that things which resemble one another in certain respects resemble one another in further respects.... The success of such arguments depends upon the nature and extent of the similarities between the two objects.
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False analogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
False analogy is an informal fallacy applying to inductive arguments. It is often mistakenly considered to be a formal fallacy, but it is not, because a false analogy consists of an error in the subs...
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