Showing posts with label Fallacy: Stacking the Deck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fallacy: Stacking the Deck. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Questionable Premise
If you have sufficient background information to know that a premise is questionable or unlikely to be acceptable, then you commit this fallacy if you accept an argument based on that premise. This broad category of fallacies of argumentation includes appeal to authority, false dilemma, inconsistency, lying, stacking the deck, straw man, suppressed evidence, and many others.
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