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My favorite logical fallacy is?
Fallacy of Accident or Sweeping Generalization 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Converse Fallacy of Accident or Hasty Generalization 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Irrelevant Conclusion 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
Affirming the Consequent 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Denying the antecedent 7%  7%  [ 1 ]
Begging the question 14%  14%  [ 2 ]
Fallacy of False Cause 36%  36%  [ 5 ]
Fallacy of many questions 14%  14%  [ 2 ]
Straw man 21%  21%  [ 3 ]
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22 Feb 2011, 7:52 pm

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23 Feb 2011, 1:12 am

naturalplastic wrote:
My favorite silly-gism would be

God is love

Love is blind

Stevie Wonder is blind

ergo, Stevie Wonder is God!

Which kind of fallacy would you pigeonhole that one!


Affirming the Consequent
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Fallacy of Accident or Sweeping Generalization


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24 Feb 2011, 2:41 pm

Looks like aspies love the non sequiter.
ergo
cheese is tasty
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