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10 Powerful Techniques “They” Use to Distract, Deceive & Divide You

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A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning or a false assumption that might sound impressive but proves absolutely nothing. Sometimes they are completely unintentional, but more often than not they are used by people during debates, arguments or presentations to mislead you into thinking, acting or behaving in a certain way.

Typically, when people are losing an argument…because they realize they don’t have a rational, factual, logical argument…they resort to logical fallacies.

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And as you might expect salespeople, politicians and con artists use them all the time, often very skilfully, and the public innocently continues to fall for them.

So, knowing how to spot a logical fallacy and call it out or refute it can be an incredibly useful life tool to have at your disposal.

Unsurprisingly there are a lot of logical fallacies, hundreds, in fact, so to learn them all is a big task. But to help you on your way here is a list of the 10 most common ones for you to get your head around and start you on your journey of detecting them and dealing with the people who use them.

Let’s start with probably one of the most common offenders. Also called ‘poisoning the well’ or the ‘personal attack’ you’ve no doubt seen the ad hominem fallacy used all the time.

How it works is that rather than refuting an opponent’s argument the person attacks the individual instead. This can be directed towards their character, morals, intelligence, reputation, physical appearance or credentials. In fact, it really doesn’t matter, the main thing to remember is that they are not addressing the actual argument being presented but relying purely on feelings and prejudices to win their case.

Here are some typical examples: “People like you don’t understand what it’s like to be of my race so you obviously have no right to make an argument about this situation.”

P.S. There is also a variation to the Ad Hominem called ‘Guilt by Association’ that you also need to watch out for.  Watch the video to see the rest!

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    • Slimey

      Did you know the Bible uses your logical fallacies all the time?

      Ad hominem attacks – Nothing can go right with you people because you are sinfool stiff-neck people.

      Appeal to authority – God says there is NONE like me. Hmmm…..

      Strawman – let God be true and every man a LIAR.

      Appeal to ignorance – I believe in his Son, therefore I am saved (but you never DO what He says).

      The false dilemma – again, you cannot serve God AND Mammon. That’s what it says.

      Circular reasoning – you think you are saved because your preacher lied to me and uhh, didn’t say so.

      Complex language – thous, thees, and thus confuses you?

      Bandwagon – bet you celebrate Christmass and Ishtar because it’s not in the Bible and millions celebrate it, therefore, it must be true.

      Red Herring – I have long hair so you don’t notice my short beard. :lol:

      Your ten illogical fallacies are NO Ten Commandments. :wink:

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