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EntityQ732977· pop 27· linked from 163 articles

appeal to pity

fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting their opponent's feelings of pity or guilt

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irrelevant conclusion

anecdotal evidence

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Appeals to emotion

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not invented here

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association fallacy

propositional calculus

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argument from authority

post hoc ergo propter hoc

argumentum ad populum

reductio ad Hitlerum

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reductio ad Hitlerum

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not invented here

McNamara fallacy

special pleading

proof by example

false attribution

in-group favoritism

appeal to consequences

a dicto simpliciter

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appeal to probability

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