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Fallacies of Assumption
In John Capps & Donald Capps (eds.), You've Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think. Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 80–96 (2009)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The False Dilemma Begging the Question Two Wrongs The Straw Man The Slippery Slope Conclusion.Author's Profile
fallacies of assumption ‐ anything taken for granted, or a supposition first fallacy of assumption ‐ false dilemma false dilemma begging the question ‐ petitio principii third fallacy of assumption ‐ two wrongs fallacy “two wrongs make a right fallacy” ‐ beginning in childhood straw man fallacy ‐ responding to an argument, deliberately distorting to weaken it slippery slope fallacy ‐ making statements, not being very convincing fallacies ‐ supporting or effecting certain mindsets in the reader mindset and skeptical attitude and search for objective truth
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