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post #1 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:00pm
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You come to a conclusion that may or may not be right, but the evidence you use to support said conclusion is either wrong or irrelevant? Thanks!
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post #2 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:11pm
Politics.
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post #3 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:15pm
Erroneous?
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post #4 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:16pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy perhaps?
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post #5 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:17pm
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But which fallacy? There are a bunch and some of them are very similar.
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post #6 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:34pm
It's not a fallacy. I know what you're thinking of, but I don't know what the term for it is either. I vaguely remember a math teacher telling me this back in 8th grade when I got the right result for an algebra equation but I used the wrong process to get there. I didn't get credit for the answer being right and I thought it was unfair.

I hated that math teacher. She was the worst.
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post #7 of 10
10/14/10 at 3:58pm
deduction, or induction, or what happens in CE on every single thread.
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post #8 of 10
10/14/10 at 4:08pm
False Attribution
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post #9 of 10
10/14/10 at 4:15pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrG View Post
False Attribution

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post #10 of 10
10/14/10 at 7:03pm
Glad to help!
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