Matching Pairs TCA: English: Fallacies 4Online version match the fallacy with the definition by Elvira Trevino 1 masked- man 2 Texas sharpshooter 3 personal incredulity 4 conjunction 5 ambiguity 6 the fallacy, fallacy 7 If by whiskey 8 no true scotsman 9 burden of proof 10 base rate the assumption that an outcome simultaneously satisfying multiple conditions is more probable than an outcome satisfying a single one of them. presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made that is is necessarily wrong using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth. the substitution of identical designators in a true statement can lead to a false one. supports both sides of an issue by using terms that are emotionally sensitive and ambiguous saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, bit with someone else to disapprove. cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption. making what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument. saying that because one finds something difficult to understand that it's therefore not true. making a probability judgment based on conditional probabilities, without taking into account the effect of prior probabilities.
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