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Previous installments:

Part 1 - Introduction and the Argument From Ignorance
Part 2 - the Appeal to Inappropriate Authority
Part 3 - the Argument Ad Hominem
Part 4 - the Appeal to Force and the Appeal to Emotion
Part 5 - the Irrelevant Conclusion
Part 6 - Fallacies of Presumption and the Complex Question
Part 7 - False Cause and Begging the Question

1 posted on 12/31/2003 8:21:01 AM PST by general_re
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To: longshadow; PatrickHenry; Woahhs; P.O.E.; No More Gore Anymore; jigsaw; Snake65; RobFromGa; ...
Part 8. The fallacy of converse accident is also occasionally known as the "hasty generalization".

This closes the discussion of fallacies of presumption. Part 9 will begin the discussion of fallacies of ambiguity with an examination of the fallacy of equivocation.

2 posted on 12/31/2003 8:23:04 AM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re
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8 posted on 12/31/2003 12:59:42 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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