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  • https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Fundamental_Methods_of_Logic_(Knachel)/02%3A_Informal_Logical_Fallacies/2.01%3A_Logical_Fallacies_-_Formal_and_Informal
    Generally and crudely speaking, a logical fallacy is just a bad argument. Bad, that is, in the logical sense of being incorrect—not bad in sense of being ineffective or unpersuasive. Alas, many fallac...Generally and crudely speaking, a logical fallacy is just a bad argument. Bad, that is, in the logical sense of being incorrect—not bad in sense of being ineffective or unpersuasive. Alas, many fallacies are quite effective in persuading people; that is why they’re so common. Often, they’re not used mistakenly, but intentionally—to fool people, to get them to believe things that maybe they shouldn’t. The goal of this chapter is to develop the ability to recognize these bad arguments.

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