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Today’s Logical Fallacy is… Diminished Responsibility!
This fallacy occurs when we argue that our behavior should be excused because of impaired judgment, e.g. telling your teacher that they should grade your exam leniently because you were hung over and “it’s not my fault.” It is a contemporary fallacy that has arisen out of the misappropriation of the American legal concept, “diminished…
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Today’s Logical Fallacy is…. Equivocation!
Also Known As… Semantics, Splitting Hairs, Playing With Words, 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…