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This argument or definition most clearly illustrates which fallacy?

 This argument or definition most clearly illustrates which fallacy?

 This fallacy occurs when we inject personality into something that doesn't involve personality, or when we exaggerate personality's role or relevance when personality isn't relevant to the degree claimed.

  •  Begging the question

  •  Faulty appeal to tradition

  •  Slippery slope

  •  Faulty appeal to authority

  •  Bandwagon

  •  Ad hominem

  •  Strawman


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Strawman fallacy occurs when we inject personality into something that doesn’t involve personality, or when we exaggerate personality’s role or relevance when personality isn’t relevant to the degree claimed

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Strawman fallacy

Hayet Jeridi answered 2 years ago
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