Logical Fallacies

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What logical fallacy is used when someone overwhelms their opponent by quickly presenting a long list of questionable facts, half-truths, and misleading statements, making it impossible to address each point in real time?

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A debate technique in which a person overwhelms their opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, or outright lies, in order to make it impossible to refute each one in real time.

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What logical fallacy is committed when one attempts to discredit their opponent's argument by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently with its conclusion(s)?

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A fallacy in which one attempts to discredit their opponent's argument by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently with its conclusion(s).

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What logical fallacy is made when assuming that every brick in a wall is small and light, so the entire wall must also be small and light?

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Assuming that what is true of the part is true for the whole (composition), or what is true of the whole is true for the parts (division).

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What logical fallacy is used when someone argues by saying, "If you don't agree, think about how sad all the students will feel!"?

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Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument.

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What logical fallacy is Priya committing by arguing that eating only organic foods is better because it's more 'natural'?

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Arguing that because something is 'natural' it is therefore valid, justified, inevitable, good, or ideal.

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What logical fallacy is used when someone claims that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove?

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Saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.

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What logical fallacy is committed when only highlighting regions with high sales to claim a marketing strategy's success, ignoring low sales regions?

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Cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption.

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What logical fallacy is committed when someone dismisses statistics by using personal experience or an isolated example?

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Using personal experience or an isolated example instead of a valid argument, especially to dismiss statistics.

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What logical fallacy is committed when someone concludes that a claim is false because it was poorly argued?

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Presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that it is necessarily wrong.

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What logical fallacy is Arjun committing by saying, "You can't trust anything Grace says about climate change because she's failed science class before."?

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Attacking your opponent's character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.