Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies¶
Bo, B. (2012). Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies.
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Primes¶
- No True Scotsman
- In religious and ideological self-defense, "no true Christian, Marxist, liberal, or conservative would say or do that" insulates a tradition from counterevidence supplied by its own members.
This sourceCatalogs the No-True-Scotsman (appeal-to-purity) move — post-hoc redefinition of the subject term to exclude a counterexample — with stock examples across religious, ideological, political-identity, and standards arguments, and the in-advance-criterion diagnostic.
- In religious and ideological self-defense, "no true Christian, Marxist, liberal, or conservative would say or do that" insulates a tradition from counterevidence supplied by its own members.
Domain-specific¶
- Relative Privation
- The fallacy belongs to the relevance-fallacy family alongside red herring and ad hominem — it deflects argumentative pressure off the original claim onto unrelated material — but its distinguishing signature is the severity comparison: where red herring introduces tangentially related material and ad hominem attacks the speaker, relative privation specifically introduces a more extreme instance of the same type of problem to discharge discussion of the lesser one.
This sourceThe most citable catalogue entry for the label itself, defining relative privation as making a scenario appear better or worse by comparison with a best- or worst-case alternative; it is a popular fallacy collection, and the family placement and severity-comparison signature are the entry's own analysis.
- The fallacy belongs to the relevance-fallacy family alongside red herring and ad hominem — it deflects argumentative pressure off the original claim onto unrelated material — but its distinguishing signature is the severity comparison: where red herring introduces tangentially related material and ad hominem attacks the speaker, relative privation specifically introduces a more extreme instance of the same type of problem to discharge discussion of the lesser one.
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