Common fallacies

Common fallacies are arguments that persuade and fool people who:

• have difficulties with abstract thinking
• are young students, or are adults unwilling to reconsider opinions they formed as students
• exercise their free will to embrace fallacies without concern for whether they are flawed

Examples of common fallacies are:

• a theory should be accepted until a better alternative is found
• rates of recession or decay observed today are somehow constant for extrapolation backwards in time
• higher taxes must produce more revenue for the government
• fewer guns must reduce the rate of crime
• choice is somehow meaningful regardless of whether it is informed
• human thought can answer any question

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