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Mastering Logical Fallacies

Sponsored by The Book, "Logically Fallacious," by Bo Bennett, PhD

Lesson 9: Ad Hominem (Circumstantial)

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Introduction to Logical Fallacies
Lesson 1
Introduction to Logical Fallacies
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Reason and Rationality
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What is an Argument?
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How Beliefs are Formed
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What is a Fallacy?
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On Being a Smart-Ass
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Fallacies: Who Commits Them?
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Ad Hominem
Lesson 8
Ad Hominem
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Ad Hominem (Circumstantial)
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Ad Hominem (Guilt by Association)
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Ad Hominem (Tu quoque)
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Ad Hominem (Abusive)
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Poisoning the Well
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Appeal to Common Belief
Lesson 14
Introduction
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Appeal to Common Belief
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Wisdom of the Crowd
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Fallacies and Religion
Lesson 17
Introduction
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Appeal to Faith
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Appeal to Heaven
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Magical Thinking
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Spiritual Fallacy
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Deception Through Confusion
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Deception Through Confusion
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Introduction to the Deception Fallacies
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Ambiguity Fallacy vs. Equivocation
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Fallacies of Authority
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Fallacies of Authority
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Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Celebrity
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Anonymous Authority
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Blind Authority
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Just Because Fallacy
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Fallacies of Emotion
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Fallacies of Emotion
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Appeal to Emotion
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Appeal to Desperation
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Appeal to Fear
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Appeal to Anger
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Appeal to Pity
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Argument From Ignorance
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Introduction
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Argument from Ignorance / Absence of Evidence
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Proof vs. Evidence
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Plausibility vs. Probability
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Dispositions to this Fallacy
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Circular Reasoning and the Fallacious Question
Lesson 42
Introduction
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Circular Reasoning
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Begging the Question
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Complex Question Fallacy
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Fallacies of Poor Statistical Thinking
Lesson 46
Introduction
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Multiple Comparisons Fallacy
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Lying with Statistics
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Ludic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
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Fake Precision
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Biased Sample Fallacy
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Base Rate Fallacy
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Black and White Thinking
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Introduction
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False Dilemma Example
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When it is Not a Fallacy
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Denying the Correlative
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Dichotomous Thinking
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The Impossible and the Possible
Lesson 59
Introduction
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Moving the Goalposts
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Nirvana Fallacy
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Unfalsifiability
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Proving Non-Existence
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Appeal to Possibility / Appeal to the Moon
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The Red Herring
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Introduction
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Red Herring
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Discouraging Red Herrings
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How to Respond
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The Legitimacy and Fallaciousness of the Slippery Slope
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Introduction
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Slippery Slope
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Basically Science
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Evidence
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Number of Events
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Confidence vs. Probability
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Special Pleading
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Introduction
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Special Pleading and Emotion
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Strong Personal Beliefs
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Social Pressure
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Compartmentalization
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The Analogy - Both Friend and Foe
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Introduction
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Weak Analogy
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Non Sequitur
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Extended Analogy
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Reductio ad Hitlerum
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A Look at Nature
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Introduction
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Appeal to Nature
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What Is "Natural," Exactly?
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Simplistic Evaluation Problem
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A Basic Misunderstanding of Science
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Naturalistic Fallacy
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Moralistic Fallacy
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Fallacies Worthy of Mention
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Introduction
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Appeal to Tradition
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Appeal to Normality
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Reductio ad Absurdum
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Fallacy of Composition / Fallacy of Division
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Cherry Picking
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Sunk-Cost Fallacy
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Self-Sealing Argument
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Shoehorning
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