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Know Your Fallacies

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The presentation of a good argument has a number of important components.  Having your facts correct (and sourced), the tone and timbre of the argument, and understanding the tools of debate; in particular, having an understanding of fallacies.

Similarly, understanding an opponent's argument and rebutting it requires similar components.

Here at the Daily Kos (and in political debate in general, truth be told), I see an awful lot of misidentification of fallacies.  Quite often, folks can see that an argument is logically weak, but they don't correctly identify why it is a weak argument.  This lessens the quality of the rebuttal.

So - do you know your fallacies?  Let's start with a little quiz here.


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