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The team making a pre-fiat argument will argue that the pre-fiat argument should be evaluated before any other argument in the round, or at least is an important major plank that has to be supported throughout the round. This is also what makes Topicality a "voter" issue, as exploitation (and other debate theory arguments) are pre-fiat.
The other assumes that individuals can experience regret if they make a suboptimal choice, and sometimes avoid making a choice to avoid experiencing regret. [20] Further research has expanded on choice overload, suggesting that there is a paradox of choice. As increasing options are available, three problems emerge.
A false dilemma is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. [1] [2] [3] In its most simple form, called the fallacy of bifurcation, all but two alternatives are excluded.
"Two wrongs make a right" has been considered as a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation. Its antithesis , "two wrongs don't make a right", is a proverb used to rebuke or renounce wrongful conduct as a response to another's transgression.
In other words, after choosing an alternative with a plurality but not a majority of utility, people remember the sum of the lost utility rather than that they made the "utility-maximizing" choice. Schwartz maintains that one of the downsides of making trade-offs is it alters how we feel about the decisions we face; afterwards, it affects the ...
The word "claim" often replaces "say" to make for a very biased sentence. Think of the example: George Bush claimed that the Iraq government was in possession of weapons of mass d
This is about adding "conspiracy theory" to the list of "words to avoid". One does not neccessarily require the other. The point of "words to avoid" is editors should use caution the way an editor should use caution around the word "cult". Just because an editor should use caution doesn't mean the word must be expunged from all of wikipedia.
Satisficing is a decision-making strategy or cognitive heuristic that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met, without necessarily maximizing any specific objective. [1]