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I just read Timothy Paul Jones' little book Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus", which sets about to expose the "fallicies" of not one but two of Bart Ehrman's recent books, Misquoting Jesus and Lost Christianities.
Archive 2007-08-01 James F. McGrath 2007
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They post comments incessantly, and those are full of fallicies, half truths, lies, distortions, irrelevancies and out-and-out BS.
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True he was extremely biased in giving credence to fallicies early on from the Clinton campaign, but in the past few weeks he has really tried to stay on the up and up.
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In reading these comments, I am disappointed that such erudite and informed people resort to such logical fallicies of ad populum.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Camp Planted Question At Campaign Stop 2009
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For years I have heard people assert that this is one of the classic logical fallicies, yet my experience is that it is the most common mechanism of social change in modern society.
Motivating Sheep, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In reading these comments, I am disappointed that such erudite and informed people resort to such logical fallicies of ad populum.
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I sense you're swayed by several economic fallicies.
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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Reply: That 'constitution' is actually just some propagandist rant, filled with straw men and other fallicies, that's been running over the Internet for years. by
Death by vomiting on ER Floor; Murder Weapon: Denial of Universal Health Insurance 2007
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But generally those in the media who do the questioning consider any argument equivalent to any other and make no effort to point out logical fallicies or weak thinking.
John Scalzi: Egotistical Toady-Loving Asshole? « Whatever 2006
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The second essay discusses more the outrage the world seems to have with Isreal in the current conflict and some of the moral fallicies that are being made, which when simplified to their essence amount to:
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