Tag

debates

Entries tagged with debates - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

3 concepts

Appeal to Common Sense

Using 'it's just common sense' as a substitute for evidence or argument, treating intuition as self-evident truth.

A question that contains a built-in assumption, making it impossible to answer without appearing to accept that assumption.

When someone redefines a group to exclude counterexamples rather than accepting that the counterexamples disprove their claim.