Fallacy Files #3: Confused Conditionals
One common logical fallacy is known as ‘affirming the consequent’. Arguments that commit this fallacy have this general form: If P then Q. Q. Therefore P. (In technical terminology, P is the antecedent...
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The informal fallacy of false dichotomy (or false dilemma) is committed when two options are mistakenly or misleadingly presented as the only two possible or viable options. George W. Bush famously...
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