7 Either/Or (“False Dilemma”) Fallacy Examples in Real Life 1. “You could either pursue your dream job or stay where you are and be miserable for the rest of your life.” There are a few flaws with this false
It’s a false cause fallacy to imply that a slight change in initial conditions is the one and only cause of the outcome of a complex event. After all, the exact initial conditions of the processes cannot be completely known, and we must admit that a slight difference of the butterfly’...
Define false assumption in philosophy What are assumptions in arguments? What are some examples of fallacious reasoning? What are examples of the false cause fallacy? What is an example of affirming the consequent? What are examples of contradictory statements?
False Analogy Fallacy | Definition & Examples from Chapter 6 / Lesson 17 58K Learn about the false analogy fallacy, also known as the weak analogy fallacy, and why it is problematic as an argument or as a comparison. See examples of false analogies to understand how they are formed. Rel...
This is a strange world when compared to our world, but Christians believe that this world was real in the past. My contention is not that ancient people were stupid, but that they were very superstitious. As Christopher Hitchens puts it: “One must state it plainly. Religion comes from th...
That makes it absolutely vital for feminists to maintain the fallacy that false allegations are statistically extremely rare. Boy, have they done a great job in promoting that mistruth.”[19] Writer Cathy Young notes that, “In challenging the old rape myths, the feminist movement has created ...
He cites the European Union and the African Union as examples and mention how the Pacific and American Union are on their way. If I were to talk about how the European Union worked in real life it’d take an entire full length article just to do that, so I’ll summarize and show ...
Some ideas persist long after the mounting evidence against them becomes overwhelming. Some of these things are kooky but probably harmless (try as I might, I do not care about ESP etc), whereas some are deeply damaging (I’m looking at you “vaccines cause autism”). ...
False dilemmas result from our tendency for black-and-white thinking and are often used rhetorically to illegitimately strengthen one’s position. Today, we’re going to cover the basics of this fallacious form of reasoning, present some false dichotomy fallacy examples, and talk about how to re...
The above argument is intentionally absurd to help identify the fallacy. But it can be hard to spot false equivalencies in the wild. Consider this argument: “Taxation is morally equivalent to theft because they both involve taking property with the threat of violence.” ...