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All that “my past doesn’t matter” hoopla is a fallacy. YOUR PAST MATTERS.
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Texas has more wins against ranked opponents than any school IN THE COUNTRY since joining the SEC. The FALLACY that the Longhorns haven’t played anyone MUST end. This team would have gone DEEP in the College Football Playoff. https://t.co/4lB2vidwUe
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I finally found the name for the fallacy I've been talking about lately. Fallacy of relative privation.
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@itsmorganariel LOGICAL FALLACY: APPEAL TO RIDICULE AND MOCKERY When someone doesn’t have an actual argument to counter something they claim isn’t true —this is the most common fallacy they will throw at you. “You’re craaaaazy” “You’re eviiiiiil” “You are stuuuuuupid” “anyone who believes
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“There are more women than men” That’s propaganda. It’s called the Scarcity Fallacy. Globally, the numbers are roughly equal and in many places, men actually outnumber women. The desperation narrative isn’t biology. It’s a control tactic.
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Using incomplete information to formulate an argument is called 'Fallacy of Excluded Evidence or Slanting'. Dhruv Rathee presents an excellent example of it while describing the Indian currency controversy surrounding the British firm De La Rue.
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“Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.” -Colin Wilson
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It is true that a positive mindset can influence your reality, but to say that it is the ONLY thing influencing reality is a fallacy of the highest degree. Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people. There is more to it than mindset, my friends. 🌹
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Love is a verse of myth and mystery— a fallacy dressed as truth, a maze of maybe’s, a dreamscape of waking realities, a certainty made of illusion, a nonfiction oxymoron. #foxprose
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Fuck calories, fuck exercise, fuck rules and rituals and hostile routine, fuck hunger, fuck food noise, fuck restricting and purging and all or nothing thinking, fuck the scale, fuck what people think, fuck clothing sizes, fuck bodychecks, fuck waiting, fuck the sunk cost fallacy
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Special thanks to @Fallacy_Face for making my insane request, character is Ashyne, a killer from the game Terror Realm
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2. The Sunk Cost Fallacy: We cling to things just because we’ve already invested time or money in them. We refuse to quit a bad job or project because we "can't let that effort go to waste." Don't throw good time after bad.
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This stupid Muslim meme is circulating again. I first encountered this illogical meme about 10 years ago. Here is my response. I hope you find it useful: This is a false equivalence fallacy. Being a nun is a choice, so, ultimately, wearing the nun's habit is a choice. Girls born
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