Fallacy Summary and Application

Anytime a television is turned on, a radio program is listened to, or a debate is being carried out, there will always be an instance of some sort of logical fallacy. It is not always the intent of the speaker to be "lying" but more so to be persuasive. A logical fallacy is a reasoning error. There are several different types of fallacies but they can be split up into two different groups: fallacies of …

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