• Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding...
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  • purposes of (successfully) fooling the Australian media into reporting that Sydney was Australia’s most naive city. Contextomy (quoting out of context) is...
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  • charge. Black box Cant (language) Code word (figure of speech) Doublespeak Fallacy of quoting out of context Fuzzy concept Jargon Mind games Obfuscated code...
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    Straw man (redirect from Man of straw)
    opponent's words out of context—i.e., choosing quotations that misrepresent the opponent's intentions (see fallacy of quoting out of context). Presenting someone...
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  • source in support of an argument. Fallacy of quoting out of context (contextotomy, contextomy; quotation mining) – selective excerpting of words from their...
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  • the term, quoting him as saying: "I didn't set out to coin a phrase. I just wanted to make an observation", and "The core of what I set out to criticize...
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    destruens/pars construens Proof by example Prooftext Quasi-experiment Quoting out of context Selection bias Selective exposure theory Simpson's paradox Special...
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  • Fallacy a True Fallacy? A Contextual Analysis", P. Brézillon et al. (eds.): CONTEXT 2017, LNAI 10257, pp. 243–253, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57837-8_19 Pinker...
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  • often considered in the context of the Vietnam War, in which enemy body counts were taken to be a precise and objective measure of success. War was reduced...
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  • respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed. The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a question...
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    of readers invested in reading the text sequentially by drawing attention to ghost fragments out of context. At the other extreme, when pull quotes are...
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  • Type of argument Argumentation theory – Academic field of logic and rhetoric Bait-and-switch – Form of fraud used in retail sales or in other contexts Cognitive...
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    " The aphorism "No news is good news". The usefulness of this as a heuristic may vary by context. Carl Sagan explains in his book The Demon-Haunted World:...
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  • Pearson (2 ed.). New York: Harper and Row. pp. 287–288. ISBN 0-06-046869-6. Quoted in Hindes, Steve (2005). Think for Yourself!: an Essay on Cutting through...
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  • Texas sharpshooter fallacy (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    from their original (archaic) French versions, in which their historical context is often lost, and then applied to support the erroneous conclusion that...
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  • because the doctor is also overweight. Circumstantial ad hominem points out that someone is in circumstances (for instance, their job, wealth, property...
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  • with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" (Laughs.) You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you...
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  • solely on the order of events, rather than taking into account other factors potentially responsible for the result that might rule out the connection. Post...
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  • at all is present. Thus in some contexts it may be a form of begging the question, and it is also a special case of ad lapidem. Argument from ignorance...
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    Red herring (category Figures of speech)
    connection with Nashe's quote and the figurative meaning of red herring to distract from the intended target, only in the literal sense of a hunting practice...
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  • Quotation (redirect from Direct quote)
    Fallacy of quoting out of context Musical quotation Nested quotation Scare quotes Sic Use–mention distinction Quotation mark Right to quote Both direct...
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  • Economics. 12 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1086/466657. JSTOR 724977. S2CID 222327886. Quoted in Kirzner, Israel M. (1978). Competition and Entrepreneurship. p. 231....
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  • in-group–out-group bias, in-group bias, intergroup bias, or in-group preference, is a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members...
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  • importance of the Prior Analytics introduction to the fallacy is that it places the error in a thoroughly epistemic context. For Aristotle, some reasoning of the...
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  • (disambiguation) Free (disambiguation) Quoting out of context This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Context-free. If an internal link led...
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  • knowledge of an object with the object itself, failing to recognize that Leibniz's Law is not capable of accounting for intensional contexts. The name of the...
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  • wrong. U is unnatural. Therefore, U is bad or wrong. In some contexts, the use of the terms of "nature" and "natural" can be vague, leading to unintended...
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  • from private property developers, and can be ignored. As the author points out, private developers may well have legitimate and knowledgeable opinions on...
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  • side of the story why I think Bill should be fired and not me. Now, I am sure Bill is going to come to you with some pathetic attempt to weasel out of this...
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  • informal fallacy. The complex question fallacy, or many questions fallacy, is context dependent; a presupposition by itself does not have to be a fallacy. It...
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