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592:Affirming the consequent
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220:Argument from ignorance
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92:Therefore, Q is false.
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602:Argument from fallacy
411:PhD Lunchtime Seminar
175:Argumentum ad logicam
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31:Argument from fallacy
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1270:Reductio ad Hitlerum
1226:Wisdom of repugnance
993:Moving the goalposts
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704:Undistributed middle
612:Mathematical fallacy
587:Affirming a disjunct
371:Thinking from A to Z
250:Reductio ad absurdum
230:Argumentation theory
204:begging the question
145:package-deal fallacy
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1211:Parade of horribles
1187:In-group favoritism
1013:Syntactic ambiguity
656:Syllogistic fallacy
579:propositional logic
503:– The Fallacy Files
460:2004, pp. XXIII–XXV
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278:K. S. Pope (2003).
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65:fallacist's fallacy
1297:Poisoning the well
1114:Proof by assertion
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960:Slothful induction
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