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Instead, there are facts, opinions, facts about opinions, and opinions about opinions. We must not present a fact as an opinion, nor an opinion as a fact; and so on for the other categories. Besides, truth is a boolean value (100% true or 100% false) only in certain technical contexts, such as mathematics or programming languages. In most other ...
I'm entitled to my opinion (or I have a right to my opinion) is an informal fallacy in which someone dismisses arguments against their position as an attack on one's right to hold their own particular viewpoint. [1] [2] The statement exemplifies a red herring or thought-terminating cliché.
[6] Donald Rumsfeld, then US Secretary of Defense, argued against the argument from ignorance when discussing the lack of evidence for WMDs in Iraq prior to the invasion: "Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist." [7] [b] The aphorism "No news is good news". [8]
Republicans in Congress who don’t speak out against Trump and the atrocities of Jan. 6 have taken a stand against law enforcement, against the will of the voters, and against the Constitution.
At first, the illusory truth effect was believed to occur only when individuals are highly uncertain about a given statement. [1] Psychologists also assumed that "outlandish" headlines wouldn't produce this effect however, recent research shows the illusory truth effect is indeed at play with false news. [5]
Trump’s case is different from the Supreme Court review granted to Joseph Fischer, the man appealing multiple federal crimes for his role in the January 6 breach of the US Capitol, writes Dennis ...
The corresponding conditional of a valid argument is a logical truth and the negation of its corresponding conditional is a contradiction. The conclusion is a necessary consequence of its premises. An argument that is not valid is said to be "invalid". An example of a valid (and sound) argument is given by the following well-known syllogism:
Fallacies are used in place of valid reasoning to communicate a point with the intention to persuade. Examples in the mass media today include but are not limited to propaganda, advertisements, politics, newspaper editorials, and opinion-based news shows. [15]