Fallacies

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    • What is a Fallacy?
      a mistake
    • What is Ad Hoc reasoning?
      The addition of irrelevant hypotheses to a theory to save it from being falsified.
    • what is circular reasoning? (begging the question)
      When the conclusion of an argument is assumed within one of the premises.
    • What is the straw man fallacy?
      Changing or exaggerating an opponents position to make it easier to refute.
    • What is equivocation?
      When the meaning of a word changes in the middle of an argument.
    • what is the fallacy of composition?
      when someone assumes that what is true of part of something must also be true of the whole thing.
    • an example of the part-to-whole fallacy?
      e.g. that brick is rectangular, so the building is rectangular
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