Oh, fallacies!
So.. as stupid as this may sound, I've never really known about fallacies. That is, until this year, when we learned about them. To tell you the truth, I felt pretty stupid after that English lesson.. not because I had never known about fallacies, but because I realized that I used them in A LOT of arguments. O.o
So I guess I just wanna listahan a couple of popular ones, and define them for any of you who also don't really know about fallacies, and just talk a bit about them and how I've used them before.
1. ad hominem
This is when the arguer attacks the person instead of the argument...
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