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Pragmatic Fallacies
Begging the Question: An argument which, in the process of arguing for some claim, uses that very claim as one of the premises (hence arguing in a circle). Complex Question: An attempt to trap someone by asking a question which has a false (or controversial) presupposition. False Dichotomy: An attempt to trap someone by asking a question which presupposes a false or controversial dichotomy (disjunction). (Notice that False Dichotomy is thus really a particular species of Complex Question). |
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next: missing premises (revisited)
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