Assertion: reasoning's fallacy | /r/HasProperty | committed
Facets:
value: regardless of
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: An ecological fallacy is committed when one draws an inference from data based on the premise that qualities observed for groups necessarily hold for individuals; for example, "if countries with more Protestants tend to have higher suicide rates, then Protestants must be more likely to commit suicide.
text: Ecological fallacies can be committed when one measures scholarly productivity of a sub-group of individuals (e.g. "Puerto Rican" faculty) via reference to aggregate data about a larger and different group (e.g. "Hispanic" faculty).
text: An argument that commits a fallacy cannot provide a good reason to accept its conclusion; therefore, as long as fallacies are being committed, the arguments aren’t being very productive.
text: This fallacy is committed when a person makes a claim that knowingly or unknowingly disregards well known science, science that weighs against the claim.
text: The Fallacy of False Equivalence is committed when someone implies falsely (and usually indirectly) that the two sides on some issue have basically equivalent evidence, while knowingly covering up the fact that one side’s evidence is much weaker.
text: Because appeals to origins are sometimes relevant and sometimes irrelevant and sometimes on the borderline, in those latter cases it can be very difficult to decide whether the fallacy has been committed.
text: If the arguer is unable to defend this presumption, then the fallacy is committed regardless of whether the presumption is defensible.