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Conditional or questionable fallacies
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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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Conditional or questionable fallacies
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Black swan blindness
Black swan blindness☜Black swan blindness – the argument that ignores low probability, high impact events, thus down playing the role of chance and under representing known risks.☜59C6EF
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Broken window fallacy
Broken window fallacy☜Broken window fallacy – an argument which disregards lost opportunity costs (typically non-obvious, difficult to determine or otherwise hidden) associated with destroying property of others, or other ways of externalizing costs onto others.☜59C6EF
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Definist fallacy
Definist fallacy☜Definist fallacy – involves the confusion between two notions by defining one in terms of the other.☜59C6EF
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Naturalistic fallacy
Naturalistic fallacy☜Naturalistic fallacy – attempts to prove a claim about ethics by appealing to a definition of the term good in terms of either one or more claims about natural properties (sometimes also taken to mean the appeal to nature).☜59C6EF
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Slippery Slope
Slippery Slope☜Slippery slope (thin edge of the wedge, camels nose) – asserting that a relatively small first step inevitably leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact.☜59C6EF
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Non sequiturs
Non sequiturs☜A formal fallacy is an error in logic that can be seen in the arguments form without an understanding of the arguments content. All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs.☜FFB597
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Propositional fallacies
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Informal fallacies
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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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Formal syllogistic fallacies
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Red herring fallacies
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