Fallacies in Posts

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The point of this blog is to encourage people to interact with and understand logical structures and fallacies. my hope is that this will help people build the skills they need to make and understand arguments, but it's also for fun.

A post being here does not mean their point is wrong- it just means their reasoning is bad. do not fall victim to the fallacy fallacy

fallacy of composition- assuming that something true of a part of a whole (erections in corpses and those with ED) must be true of the whole (Biological sexual arousal responses)

cherry picking- using individual cases (induced erections in those with ED and corpses) to confirm a whole position, while ignoring other data that may contradict or weaken this position (other chemical injections may cause erections, histamine is involved in many non- allergy processes)

hasty generalization- basing a broad conclusion (one about all sexual arousal) on a small or unrepresentative sample (some induced erections)

Fallacy of the single cause- it is assumed that there is one simple cause of an outcome (histamine) when in reality it may have been caused by a number of causes 'working together'