Black or White Fallacy This fallacy can be referred to as an either-or fallacy or a false dilemma. By definition, it is a fallacy that falsely avails two options. It is a false fallacy because it ignores other alternatives that are also available for a particular school of thought. It […]
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The fallacy I chose is a strawman. It is a kind of red herring that misleads or diverts attention away from a pertinent or significant subject. It is also where you avoid the point of an original argument when forming your counterargument and instead make up a point to attack […]
A fallacy that I pick is ambiguity. Ambiguity fallacy is when someone is confused with what was being said. A word or phrase that was being misunderstood or unclear to the other person. For example, a person said to the other person that “he was hunting a deer in a […]
