y2 informal fallacies Flashcards

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unqualified generalisation

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a fallacy that contains a false premise about the entirety of a population

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false dilemma

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contains a premise which is a disjunction (A or B) that presents alternatives as exhaustive and exclusive when they are not.

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slippery slope

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contains premises which contain a chain reaction that is presented to be happening when there is no sufficient reason to believe that the chain reaction is happening or will happen.

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