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71Ignoratio elenchi — Contents 1 Example 2 Red herring 3 See also 4 References …
72No true Scotsman — For the practice of wearing a kilt without undergarments, see True Scotsman. No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.[1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather… …
73Correlation does not imply causation — (related to ignoring a common cause and questionable cause) is a phrase used in science and statistics to emphasize that correlation between two variables does not automatically imply that one causes the other (though correlation is necessary for …
74Begging the question — Bust of Aristotle, whose Prior Analytics contained an early discussion of this fallacy. Begging the question (or petitio principii, assuming the initial point ) is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed… …
75Fallacy — In logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is usually incorrect argumentation in reasoning resulting in a misconception or presumption. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (appeal to emotion), or… …
76Obfuscation — For the term as used in computer science, see Obfuscated code. Obfuscation (or beclouding) is the hiding of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, wilfully ambiguous, and harder to interpret.[citation needed] Contents… …
77Victor Cousin — (28 November 1792 13 January 1867) was a French philosopher.BiographyEarly lifeThe son of a watchmaker, he was born in Paris, in the Quartier Saint Antoine.At the age of ten he was sent to the local grammar school, the Lycée Charlemagne, where he …
78Post hoc ergo propter hoc — Post hoc redirects here. For the analytical technique, see Post hoc analysis. For the West Wing episode, see Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (The West Wing). Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for after this, therefore because of this, is a logical… …
79Argument to moderation — Middle ground redirects here. For other uses, see Middle Ground (disambiguation). Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam, also known as middle ground, false compromise, gray fallacy and the golden mean fallacy) is a logical… …
80Hasty generalization — is a logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence  essentially making a hasty conclusion without considering all of the variables. In statistics, it may involve basing broad… …
