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Mistaking Deductive Validity for Truth
[ DISCLAIMER ]  Quite often, when using psychoeducation in my blog to help people understand Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy  (REBT),...
Deric Hollings
Oct 5, 20244 min read
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Magical Thinking
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Suppose person X believes that washing one’s hands in a river will afford the individual to become...
Deric Hollings
Jun 20, 20244 min read
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Failure to Elucidate
[DISCLAIMER] When practicing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I invite clients to consider that the words we use matter. This is...
Deric Hollings
Jun 11, 20244 min read
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Argument from Silence
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit (edited), fair use Imagine the following scenario: Woman: Any man who isn’t outspokenly in support feminism is...
Deric Hollings
May 19, 20243 min read
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Relativist Fallacy
[DISCLAIMER] Man: On average, human males are stronger than human females. Woman: That may be true for most females, though not for me....
Deric Hollings
May 13, 20243 min read
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Avoiding the Issue
[DISCLAIMER] According to one source, from February 2021 to October 2023, the United States (U.S.) Department of Homeland Security data...
Deric Hollings
May 9, 20246 min read
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Accident Fallacy
[DISCLAIMER] According to one source: The fallacy of accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum...
Deric Hollings
May 9, 20244 min read
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Appeal to Motive
[DISCLAIMER] I recall a historical discussion with a group of work colleagues during which I questioned whether or not focusing resources...
Deric Hollings
May 9, 20243 min read
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Putting Toothpaste Back into the Tube
[DISCLAIMER] Sometimes, I speak in generalities—statements or principles having general rather than specific validity. For instance, I...
Deric Hollings
Mar 21, 20245 min read
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Naturalistic and Moralistic Fallacies
[DISCLAIMER] Throughout my blog, I discuss Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume’s concept of the is-ought problem, which...
Deric Hollings
Mar 3, 20247 min read
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Appeal to Pity
[DISCLAIMER] As matters escalate at Texas’ southern border, I’ve heard many examples of appeals to pity. Regarding this fallacy, one...
Deric Hollings
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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Complex Question Fallacy
[DISCLAIMER] I practice Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which I understand has been “criticized for being too harsh and...
Deric Hollings
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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Argument by Exception
[DISCLAIMER] Have you ever disagreed with someone who used an argument by exception—the argument that a principle is contradicted (not...
Deric Hollings
Jan 31, 20242 min read
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Equivocation
[DISCLAIMER] Suppose I stated, “Sure philosophy helps you argue better, but do we really need to encourage people to argue? There’s...
Deric Hollings
Oct 24, 20233 min read
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Unfalsifiability
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use Take a moment to look at the above-indicated picture of Italian painter Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth...
Deric Hollings
Oct 22, 20234 min read
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False Dilemma
[DISCLAIMER] On September 20, 2001, following the terror attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush addressed to a joint session of Congress and the...
Deric Hollings
Oct 21, 20235 min read
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Appeal to Authority
[DISCLAIMER] Celestial authority As a child, I learned of Mount Olympus, which according to one source relates to, “Ancient Greek...
Deric Hollings
Oct 21, 20237 min read
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Appeal to Hypocrisy
[DISCLAIMER] Recently, I posted an entry entitled Ad Hominem that related to argumentum ad hominem (also known as a personal attack,...
Deric Hollings
Oct 17, 20235 min read
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Straw Man
[DISCLAIMER] Imagine the following fictional conversation between two people: Person 1: Given how quickly things escalated when Hamas...
Deric Hollings
Oct 16, 20234 min read
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Non Sequitur
[DISCLAIMER] One of the logical fallacies I used to frequently violate was that of the non sequitur fallacy. Per one source, “A non...
Deric Hollings
Oct 16, 20233 min read
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