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Special pleading: This fallacy creates a one-sided argument by including favorable data and excluding unfavorable data through improper means. In this case, the author "moved the goalpost" by changing his argument when his original claim was shown to be false. | Special pleading: This fallacy creates a one-sided argument by including favorable data and excluding unfavorable data through improper means. In this case, the author "moved the goalpost" by changing his argument when his original claim was shown to be false. | ||
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<td><span style="font-size:115%;font-weight:bold;">Logical Fallacy: Special Pleading</span><br />This fallacy creates a one-sided argument by including favorable data and excluding unfavorable data through improper means. In this case, the author "moved the goalpost" by changing his argument when his original claim was shown to be false.</td> | |||
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Revision as of 16:02, 18 August 2015
Special pleading: This fallacy creates a one-sided argument by including favorable data and excluding unfavorable data through improper means. In this case, the author "moved the goalpost" by changing his argument when his original claim was shown to be false.
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