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29 Oct

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Show Notes The Glittering Generalities Fallacy occurs when someone uses vague, emotionally appealing phrases in place of reason. Trump We started out by discussing Trump's favorite slogan: And then we looked at this clip of Trump kind of talking about winning Finally, we talked about this clip of Trump complaining about bad people doing things: Mark's...

12 Jul

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Show Notes The McNamara Fallacy is committed when someone treats something as important because it is easy to measure, or dismisses something as unimportant because it is hard to measure. Trump We started out by talking about Robert McNamara's use of Vietnamese death toll as a measure of US success during the Vietnam...

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