Logical fallacies

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ISBN 10: 1156524075 / ISBN 13: 9781156524077

Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series Jul 2014, 2014

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Neuware -Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Chapters: Prosecutor's fallacy, Begging the question, No true Scotsman, Fallacies of definition, Straw man, False dilemma, Relativist fallacy, Ad hominem, Confirmation bias, Non sequitur, Argumentum ad baculum, Sunk costs, Truthiness, Mathematical fallacy, List of fallacies, Conditional probability, Fallacy of quoting out of context, List of published incomplete proofs, Anecdotal evidence, Pathetic fallacy, Wisdom of repugnance, Ecological fallacy, Hoyle's fallacy, Reification, Halo effect, Etymological fallacy, Spurious relationship, Regression fallacy, Ludic fallacy, Idola specus, Greedy reductionism, Idola fori, Idola tribus, Nirvana fallacy, Idola theatri, Presentism, Deductive fallacy, Conjunction fallacy, Hasty generalization, If-by-whiskey, Homunculus argument, Appeal to probability, Category mistake, Definist fallacy, Poisoning the well, Infinite regress, Suggestive question, Confusion of the inverse, Parade of horribles, Moving the goalposts, Argumentum e contrario, False premise, Meaningless statement, Package-deal fallacy, Inconsistent triad, Appeal to ridicule, Historian's fallacy, Three men make a tiger, Square logic, Psychologist's fallacy, Proving too much, Intensional fallacy, Proof by assertion, Historical fallacy, Denying the correlative, Masked man fallacy, Correlative-based fallacies, False attribution, Retrospective determinism, Ad captandum, Trivial objections, Pro hominem, Appeal to law, Judgmental language, Fallacy of distribution, Double counting, Post disputation argument, Suppressed correlative, Van Gogh fallacy, Inconsistent comparison, Anangeon, Argument from setting a precedent, Incomplete comparison, Descriptive fallacy. Excerpt: Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true. As a result, people gather evidence and recall information from memory selectively, and interpret it in a biased way. The biases appear in particular for emotionally significant issues and for established beliefs. For example, in reading about gun control, people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and/or recall have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a stronger weighting for data encountered early in an arbitrary series) and illusory correlation (in which people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased towards confirming their existing beliefs. Later work explained these results in terms of a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In combination with other effects, this strategy can bias the conclusions that are reached. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another proposal is that people show confirmation bias because they are pragmatically assessing the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way. Confi.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

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• Titel: Logical fallacies
• Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series Jul 2014
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1156524075
• ISBN-13: 9781156524077
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 246B x 189 H x 5 T Millimeter Breite: 246 mm, Höhe: 189 mm, Tiefe: 5 mm
• Gewicht: 175 Gramm

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Prosecutor's fallacy, Begging the question, No true Scotsman, Fallacies of definition, Straw man, False dilemma, Relativist fallacy, Ad hominem, Confirmation bias, Non sequitur, Argumentum ad baculum, Sunk costs, Truthiness, Mathematical fallacy, List of fallacies, Conditional probability, Fallacy of quoting out of context, List of published incomplete proofs, Anecdotal evidence, Pathetic fallacy, Wisdom of repugnance, Ecological fallacy, Hoyle's fallacy, Reification, Halo effect, Etymological fallacy, Spurious relationship, Regression fallacy, Ludic fallacy, Idola specus, Greedy reductionism, Idola fori, Idola tribus, Nirvana fallacy, Idola theatri, Presentism, Deductive fallacy, Conjunction fallacy, Hasty generalization, If-by-whiskey, Homunculus argument, Appeal to probability, Category mistake, Definist fallacy, Poisoning the well, Infinite regress, Suggestive question, Confusion of the inverse, Parade of horribles, Moving the goalposts, Argumentum e contrario, False premise, Meaningless statement, Package-deal fallacy, Inconsistent triad, Appeal to ridicule, Historian's fallacy, Three men make a tiger, Square logic, Psychologist's fallacy, Proving too much, Intensional fallacy, Proof by assertion, Historical fallacy, Denying the correlative, Masked man fallacy, Correlative-based fallacies, False attribution, Retrospective determinism, Ad captandum, Trivial objections, Pro hominem, Appeal to law, Judgmental language, Fallacy of distribution, Double counting, Post disputation argument, Suppressed correlative, Van Gogh fallacy, Inconsistent comparison, Anangeon, Argument from setting a precedent, Incomplete comparison, Descriptive fallacy. Excerpt: Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardle...