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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
Part 8 - Accident and Converse Accident
Part 9 - Fallacies of Ambiguity and Equivocation

[general_re]

Part 10. I probably wouldn't have chosen Al Gore and Sid Blumenthal, but there you go ;)

The final part, part 11, will close the discussion of fallacies of ambiguity with the fallacies of composition and division.

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[PatrickHenry]

The fallacy of accent may be construed broadly to include the distortion produced by pulling a quoted passage out of its context, putting it in another context, and there drawing a conclusion that could never have been drawn in the original context. This business of quoting out of context is sometimes done with deliberate craftiness.

Who would ever do a dishonorable thing like that?

Similarly the deliberate omission of some qualification made by an author that plays a key role in giving the meaning intended for some written passage may be a damaging use of accent.

Or that? Hint: The Quote Mine Project.

[polemikos]

Examples of Amphiboly:

a - Last night I shot a burglar in my pajamas.

b - Save soap and waste paper.