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Bill: "I think that we should invest more money in expanding the interstate system."
Jill: "I think that would be a bad idea, considering the state of the treasury."
Bill: How can anyone be against highway improvements?"
Jill: "I think that would be a bad idea, considering the state of the treasury."
Bill: How can anyone be against highway improvements?"
Burden of Proof
Ad Ignorantiam AKA Appeal to Ignorance Category: Fallacies of Relevance (Red Herrings) → Distracting Appeals Burden of Proof is a fallacy in which the burden of proof is placed on the wrong side. Another version occurs when a lack of evidence for side A is taken to be evidence for side B in cases in which the burden of proof actually rests on side B. A common name for this is an Appeal to Ignorance. This sort of reasoning typically has the following form:
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772 Total Answer Attempts 10%
75 Correctly Popped Fallacies
697 Incorrectly Un/Popped


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Most Common Responses51 - Appeal to Popularity 36 - Begging the Question 34 - Appeal to Emotion 33 - False Dilemma 33 - Peer Pressure 33 - Red Herring 29 - Special Pleading 27 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 27 - Appeal to Ridicule 26 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 26 - Personal Attack 24 - Fallacy of Composition 23 - Appeal to Common Practice 22 - Appeal to Belief 22 - Biased Generalization 21 - Confusing Cause and Effect 21 - Guilt by Association 20 - Fallacy of Division 19 - Hasty Generalization 19 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 18 - Ignoring a Common Cause 18 - Poisoning the Well 15 - Appeal to Spite 13 - Ad Hominem 12 - Appeal to Tradition 11 - Appeal to Novelty 10 - Post Hoc 9 - Middle Ground 9 - Appeal to Pity 8 - Misleading Vividness 7 - Genetic Fallacy 7 - Relativist Fallacy 6 - Slippery Slope 3 - Appeal to Fear 3 - Appeal to Authority 1 - Spotlight 1 - Appeal to Flattery |
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this question needs thrown out...
could be 4 of the answers...
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