PHIL2420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19-20: List Of Memory Biases, Hasty Generalization, Belief Perseverance
24 Jun 2018
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19.$Fallacies$
19.1$Classifying$fallacies$
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19.2$Fallacies$of$inconsistency$
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19.3$Fallacies$of$inappropriate$assumption$
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19.4$Fallacies$of$irrelevance$
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19.5$Fallacies$of$insufficiency$
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19.6$A$list$of$fallacies$
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20.$Cognitive$Biases$
20.1$Memory$biases$
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20.2$Context$bias$
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20.3$Evidential$failures$
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20.4$Ego$Biases$
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