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Here's another example of the logical fallacy (and bad parenting) on display, provided by Texas State University's philosophy department: Daughter: "I'm so hurt that Todd broke up with me ...

Most philosophers today don’t buy that it is a fallacy to derive moral conclusions from factual premises. As Michael Ridge writes in this article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy ...

An example of this fallacy, according to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a peer-reviewed academic database, is, "I've met two people in Nicaragua so far, and they were both nice to me.

Each fallacy leads to a bad philosophy of reality: Idealism, empiricism, Pythagoreanism, or social constructionism. Mental Fallacy (Idealism) Premise: Mental operations are used in acquiring ...

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that ... use the phrase more or less matches how it’s used in logic ...

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In my philosophy course, for example, we did an assignment where we had to pick out fallacies in news articles and reflect on their purpose and effectiveness. Fallacies are not inherently false or ...

Also known as the “is-ought” fallacy, this refers to a logical fallacy wherein people falsely derive moral values regarding what is right or wrong based on certain objective natural facts.