Logic lessons for Cowboyszone
False equivalence is a
logical fallacy which describes a situation where there is a logical and apparent equivalence, but when in fact there is none. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency.
[1] It would be the
antonym of the mathematical concept of
material equivalence.
A
straw man is a common form of
argument and is an
informal fallacy based on false representation of an opponent's argument.
[1] To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument.
The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition.
[2][3]
A
false dilemma (also called
black-and-white thinking,
bifurcation,
denying a conjunct, the
either–or fallacy,
false dichotomy,
fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the
fallacy of false choice, the
fallacy of the false alternative, or the
fallacy of the excluded middle) is a type of
informal fallacy that involves a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. The opposite of this fallacy is
argument to moderation.
These are some good things for you to think about.