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Description and examples of Red Herring fallacy.
Describes the nature and history of the red herring fallacy and lists related fallacies.
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Fallacy of Red Herring. ... A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.
Ignoratio elenchi (also known as irrelevant conclusion or irrelevant thesis) is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question. "Ignoratio elenchi" can be roughly translated by ignorance of refutation, that is, ignoran...
It evaluates its soundness. (For the fallacies, we skip the standard form reconstruction but explain how the fallacy occurs in the example.) It explicitly states whether the argument is sound or ...
A Fallacy Recognition Handbook...
The red herring fallacy is to discuss a topic that sounds like it is relevant to the main topic, but actually is not.
RED HERRING: This fallacy introduces an irrelevant issue into a discussion as a diversionary tactic.
"A distraction [...] that will divert people's attention from the real issues" (Cross 305).
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