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Today’s Logical Fallacy is… Slippery Slope!
This fallacy has been chosen especially in honor of today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage! (Also known as “Snowball Argument,” “Domino Theory”) The slippery slope fallacy is based on the idea that if we allow one thing to happen (“A”), then it will inevitably lead to a chain reaction of consequences, eventually culminating in…
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Today’s Logical Fallacy is…. Equivocation!
(Semantics, Splitting Hairs, Playing With Words, or Using Legalisms, Fallacy of Equivocation, Doublespeak) This fallacy occurs when someone uses the inherent ambiguity in a word to manipulate the audience by suggesting that a word means something that it doesn’t, often by allowing the meaning of a word to change during the argument and thus invalidating…