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Is “If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?" a fallacy, and if so, which one?
Nov 5, 2019
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What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?
Apr 25, 2018
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If Pascal's wager can be applied to belief in anything, then what is the fallacy in Pascal's wager?
Jul 18, 2017
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Why should one accept trivial claims without evidence?
Feb 19, 2020
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What do you call the fallacy of thinking that some action A will guarantee some outcome B, when in reality B depends on multiple other conditions?
Sep 29, 2019
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Why is Aristotle's objection not considered a resolution to Zeno's paradox?
Aug 11, 2015
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Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?
Nov 10, 2019
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What fallacy dismisses problems by presenting "bigger" problems?
Jun 24, 2015
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What was Cantor's philosophical reason for accepting the infinite but rejecting the infinitesimal?
Mar 31, 2016
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Is it a fallacy to say that a sane person cannot apply rational thought to the motivations of the insane?
Dec 1, 2015

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Are units of angle really dimensionless?
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What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?
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Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?
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How undecidable is the spectral gap?
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Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?