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True or False?

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An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Steven Weinberg

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Non sequitur - deductive reasoning's failing grade

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Early transcendentals: First-order predicate calculus

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Modus ponendo ponens

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Informal fallacies

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Reductio ad absurdum and the Strawman

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False dilemma

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Loaded question

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Hobson's choice

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Cop Fu - the art of creating truthfull bullshit to recount later

This section is dedicated to the men and women of the Windsor Police Service who provided a uniformed street thug introduction to a subject that the authors believed was isolated to playgrounds and school yards.

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Sovereign power and Separation of Powers post-1982

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Social science wielded as a divining rod to easy excuses

There's no such thing, only simpleton practitioners.

• Character attacks
  
  • Delusional Disorder
    
    • Grandiose
    • Persecutory
  • Personality Disorder
    
    • Antisocial
    • Borderline
    • Histrionic
    • Narcissistic
    • Obsessive-compulsive
      
      • WK Goodman, LH Price, SA Rasmussen, et al. The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. I. Development, Use, and Reliability. 46 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, 1006-1011. 1989.
      • MC Rosario-Campos, EC Miguel, et. al. The Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS): an instrument for assessing obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions. 11:5 Mol. Psychiatry, 495-504. May 2006.
    • Paranoid
    • Schizoid
  • Querulous Paranoia
  • Victim Blaming
  • Apophenia