{"id":388,"date":"2003-06-16T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/fallacies\/"},"modified":"2003-06-16T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-16T05:09:00","slug":"fallacies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/fallacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a114'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Start with the classics:&nbsp; <U>excluded middle<\/U>, <U>post ergo propter<\/U>, overuse of Occam&#8217;s razor, affirming the consequent | denying the antecedent, collective | divisive, ad hominem&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Then the intuitive ones for which I know no name:&nbsp; the <U>universal anecdote<\/U> (I know this great anecdote, which applies everywhere and describes a perfect cross-section) | the <U>universal peer group<\/U> (you and I know most Americans won&#8217;t stand for this) &#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Then the devilish ones:&nbsp; the <U>rephrasing&nbsp;problem<\/U> (or, passing the foregone-conclusion buck) &#8212; considering a replacement to an old idea, but then discarding it by saying &#8220;that implies <STRONG>foo<\/STRONG>, which can&#8217;t be right&#8221; &#8212; although <STRONG>foo<\/STRONG> is equivalent to the idea you were reconsidering replacing.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>A list, from a scifraud member&#8217;s sig:&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/kspope.com\/fallacies\/fallacies.php\">http:\/\/kspope.com\/fallacies\/fallacies.php<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start with the classics:&nbsp; excluded middle, post ergo propter, overuse of Occam&#8217;s razor, affirming the consequent | denying the antecedent, collective | divisive, ad hominem&#8230; Then the intuitive ones for which I know no name:&nbsp; the universal anecdote (I know this great anecdote, which applies everywhere and describes a perfect cross-section) | the universal peer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7iVvB-6g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}