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Logical Fallacies
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#1
Logical Fallacies
May 24, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Hi everyone!

I am composing a notebook in OneNote for my new install of Window 7.

I would like it if everyone would think of as many logical fallacies as possible with a brief (or thorough) description of each one.

I know there are so many of them, however, I am only familiar with few.

I am very appreciative of all responses!
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 24, 2010 at 1:41 pm
An Encyclopedia of Logical Fallacies
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 24, 2010 at 1:45 pm
oooooo... nice. Big Grin
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 24, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Hahahahahaa!!!
Quote:Example
(1) Most people who are read the last rites die shortly afterwards.
Therefore:
(2) Priests are going around killing people with magic words!
"God is dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Faith is what you have in things that DON'T exist. - Homer J. Simpson
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 24, 2010 at 2:00 pm
hahah awesome.
--- RDW, 17
"Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 25, 2010 at 3:14 am
I use that source as well as this at times when I'm told I'm doing this or that.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 25, 2010 at 3:30 am
A thing is a fallacy only if it is untrue... a logical fallacy is a thing that is logically untrue... every one of them also a non-sequitur.

So to list all of the fallacies possible would be to endlessly list many things that have not a semblance of sanity... observe this one:

Bananas are yellow... therefore the moon is made of cheese.

If a statement asserts one point... and a conclusion is drawn from it that does not relate to that point: it is a logical fallacy. However... this says nothing of the truth of the matter. It may indeed be that because bananas are yellow... the moon is not only made of cheese... but green and inhabited by the VPP. We "may" not be fully appreciating the color of yellow... or perhaps be misattributing the banana's relationship to cheese... but we have no reason to suppose that we are, therefore: such a statement is to us a fallacy.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 25, 2010 at 8:46 am
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Logical+Fallacies
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 25, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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RE: Logical Fallacies
May 25, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Stephen Downes Guide to the Logical Fallacies

An awesomely good site that provides useful definitions for most, if not all, of the logical fallacies anyone with flawed reasoning can ever hope to incur.
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