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Pathetic fallacy
Pathetic fallacy – when an inanimate object is declared to have characteristics of animate objects.
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Fallacies
Fallacies☜A fallacy is incorrect argumentation in logic and rhetoric resulting in a lack of validity, or more generally, a lack of soundness – and, where applicable, you can use Pointer cross-relations from ideas on other maps to indicate that the idea is fallacious (and why). ☜F1CEB7
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Faulty generalizations
Faulty generalizations☜Faulty generalizations – reach a conclusion from weak premises. Unlike fallacies of relevance, in fallacies of defective induction, the premises are related to the conclusions yet only weakly buttress the conclusions. A faulty generalization is thus produced. ☜FFB597
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Pathetic fallacy
Pathetic fallacy☜Pathetic fallacy – when an inanimate object is declared to have characteristics of animate objects.☜59C6EF
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Accident
Accident☜Accident – an exception to a generalization is ignored.☜59C6EF
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Cherry picking
Cherry picking☜Cherry picking (suppressed evidence, incomplete evidence) – act of pointing at individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position.☜59C6EF
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False analogy
False analogy☜False analogy – an argument by analogy in which the analogy is poorly suited.☜59C6EF
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Hasty Generalization
Hasty Generalization☜Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, leaping to a conclusion, hasty induction, secundum quid, converse accident) – basing a broad conclusion on a small sample.☜59C6EF
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Misleading vividness
Misleading vividness☜Misleading vividness – involves describing an occurrence in vivid detail, even if it is an exceptional occurrence, to convince someone that it is a problem.☜59C6EF
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Overwhelming exception
Overwhelming exception☜Overwhelming exception – an accurate generalization that comes with qualifications which eliminate so many cases that what remains is much less impressive than the initial statement might have led one to assume.☜59C6EF
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Thought-terminating cliché
Thought-terminating cliché☜Thought-terminating cliché – a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wisdom, used to quell cognitive dissonance, conceal lack of thought-entertainment, move onto other topics etc. but in any case, end the debate with a cliche—not a point.☜59C6EF
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