MLS 570 Critical Thinking Reading Notes for Fogelin

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MLS 570Critical ThinkingReading Notes for
Fogelin

• Fallacies of Clarity Relevance
• Fall Term 2006 North Central College

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FALLACIES OF CLARITY

• A fallacy is a type of bad reasoning that gets
  repeated so much that it gets its own name.
• A lack of clarity can be just unclear thinking,
  or it can be done intentionally, often to confuse
  people.
• Fallacies of Clarity
• Heaps
• Slippery Slopes
• Conceptual Slippery Slopes
• Fairness Slippery Slopes
• Causal Slippery Slopes
• Ambiguity
• Equivocation

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Heaps

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