This fallacy occurs when someone argues that because something has always been done or believed, it is right to do or believe it.
What is Appeal to tradition.
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Nikki Giovanni
What is "Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to mistakes that counts?"
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William Blake.
What is "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair?"
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To contend with words, or to discuss a question by considering opposing arguments.
What is debate?
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When people research and comprehend elements of the past so they can apply that knowledge to current situation in the present. They are using this CT.
What What is circumstance (p116)
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This fallacy occurs when someone draws a conclusion from a comparison between two items that are too dissimilar for any conclusion to be drawn.
What is False Analogy?
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G Santayana
What is "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it?"
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Cicero
What " O tempora! O mores! Oh the times! Oh the manners?"
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The art and science of reasoning.
What is logic?
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Sometimes people use a stipulative definition or a dictionary definition in this CT.
What is definition?
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There are 8 million of us worldwide. You should join this growing movement.
What is bandwagon?
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Vaclav Havel "To...
What is "To respond to evil by committing another evil does not eliminate evil but allows it to go on forever?"
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Ravi Zaccarias.
What is "When you throw mud at someone else, not only do you get your hands dirty, you lose a lot of ground?"
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List 3 or the 5 characteristics of effective thinkers.
What is critical, logical, careful and accurate, civil without selling out, listen carefully and ask great questions?
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Some use an analogy but be aware you don’t use a false analogy in the CT.
What is comparison?
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In January I hit a coyote and then Ian broke his leg. Be careful of coyotes they’ll make your kids break bones.
What is false cause.
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Vaclav Havel "Hope"
What is "Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out?"
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Charles Spurgeon
What is “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes?”
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Three statements that aren’t propositions.
What are questions, preferences and commands?
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To examine the cause between two factors ( how one factor influences another). Use the CT.
What is relationship?
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We’ve always played this game at our parties and we always should.
What is appeal to tradition?
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Jonathan Swift
What is "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into?"
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T.H. Huxley
What is "Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men?"