RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 25, 2013 at 8:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2013 at 8:59 pm by Angrboda.)
#4 and #6 aren't well described.
#4 - Begging the question involves assuming the truth of one's conclusion in one of the premises (also known as circular reasoning or petitio principii); one generally grants the truth of uncontroversial premises unless there is specific reason to doubt them (or insufficient reason to assume one of them).
#6 - It is not a fallacy if there are in fact only two possibilities. More generally, it is a fallacy to reduce the number of cases, or enlarge the number of cases beyond that which there actually are. (This is generally known as misapplication of the law of the excluded middle, and it is just as fallacious to argue that there are only 20 cases when there are 21 as it is to argue that there are 2 when in fact there are more.)
And just because I love Latin, here is #8 from Wikipedia:
Quote:Onus probandi– from Latin "onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat" the burden of proof is on the person who makes the claim, not on the person who denies (or questions the claim). It is a particular case of the "argumentum ad ignorantiam" fallacy, here the burden is shifted on the person defending against the assertion.
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