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The Fallacy List
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RE: The Fallacy List
Some other good ones I particularly like:

Argument to moderation (false compromise, middle ground, fallacy of the mean, argumentum ad temperantiam) – assuming that the compromise between two positions is always correct.

Etymological fallacy – which reasons that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present-day usage.

Historian's fallacy – occurs when one assumes that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and having the same information as those subsequently analyzing the decision.[40] (Not to be confused with presentism, which is a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas, such as moral standards, are projected into the past.)

Nirvana fallacy (perfect solution fallacy) – when solutions to problems are rejected because they are not perfect.

Psychologist's fallacy – an observer presupposes the objectivity of his own perspective when analyzing a behavioral event.

Referential fallacy[52] – assuming all words refer to existing things and that the meaning of words reside within the things they refer to, as opposed to words possibly referring to no real object or that the meaning of words often comes from how we use them.

Reification (concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) – a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something that is not a real thing, but merely an idea.

Retrospective determinism – the argument that because an event has occurred under some circumstance, the circumstance must have made its occurrence inevitable.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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The Fallacy List - by Silver - May 20, 2017 at 5:29 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by bennyboy - May 21, 2017 at 6:29 am
RE: The Fallacy List - by Gawdzilla Sama - May 21, 2017 at 4:24 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by Minimalist - May 21, 2017 at 4:43 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by bennyboy - May 21, 2017 at 6:00 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by Mister Agenda - May 21, 2017 at 8:40 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by Mister Agenda - May 22, 2017 at 10:36 am
RE: The Fallacy List - by Silver - May 22, 2017 at 10:47 am
RE: The Fallacy List - by bennyboy - May 23, 2017 at 6:17 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by vorlon13 - May 22, 2017 at 10:48 am
RE: The Fallacy List - by Silver - May 22, 2017 at 10:56 am
RE: The Fallacy List - by CapnAwesome - May 23, 2017 at 3:33 pm
RE: The Fallacy List - by Caligvla XXI - May 26, 2017 at 1:17 pm

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