logical fallacy

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Meaning

a fallacy in logical argumentation

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Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, ' If science can't do something, therefore religion can. Richard Dawkins

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy. Francis Collins

An attack is a logical fallacy describing the attempt to discredit an argument by merely attacking the credibility of the arguer. Source: Internet

Instead, Stanford’s real strategy was to employ a politically correct logical fallacy as an “acceptable” excuse for not doing the right thing. Source: Internet

And your blindness to the logical fallacy in that does not speak to an immersion in ideology? Source: Internet

Outliers and IconoclastsAt this point, you might be objecting that this represents an “argument from authority,” which in certain circumstances can lead to a kind of logical fallacy. Source: Internet

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