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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 December | 129 comments (129 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: 7 basic plots (4.00 / 5)

And, for your Yuletide entertainment, 20 logical fallacies:

Ad hominem
Ad ignorantiam
Argument from authority
Argument from final Consequences
Argument from Personal Incredulity
Confusing association with causation
Confusing currently unexplained with unexplainable
False Continuum
False Dichotomy
Inconsistency Applying criteria or rules to one belief, claim, argument, or position but not to others
The Moving Goalpost
Non-Sequitur
Post-hoc ergo propter hoc
Reductio ad absurdum
Slippery Slope
Straw Man
Special pleading, or ad-hoc reasoning
Tautology
Tu quoque
Unstated Major Premise

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 05:54:09 AM EST
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Re: 7 basic plots (4.00 / 3)

So... you're implying my friend couldn't tell the difference between The Odyssey, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Where's Waldo?

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 06:15:32 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 December | 129 comments (129 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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