Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
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Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
- Red Herring Fallacy: This fallacy is basically the use of a trick to avoid the main points, often by ignoring other views instead of facing them:
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“Red herrings” has an amusing etymology: As peasant poachers of deer and grouse made off with their booty through medieval forests, they would drag a fish, a red herring, across the trail to confuse the lord of the manor’s bloodhounds.
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Irony is a fancy word for saying “the opposite of that which is perceived.”
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Equivocation, aka “calling two different things by the same name,” is the logical fallacy of using a word or phrase in an argument either:
Here’s an example:
- In an ambiguous way
- To mean two or more things
Here’s an example:
- Salad is healthy, and taco salad is a salad. Therefore, taco salad is healthy.
Equivocation Fallacy Explained, With Examples
- Straw Man Fallacy: This occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making.
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Ad Hominem
(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.
(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.