Equivocation Fallacy Explained, With Examples
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Equivocation Fallacy Explained, With Examples
The bandwagon fallacy, also known as the appeal to the masses or appeal to common belief fallacy, is the logical fallacy of claiming that something is true because everyone believes it. Whether that belief is actually true or not doesn’t matter—if an arguer claims that a position is true because it’s popular, the arguer is using the bandwagon falla... See more
Bandwagon Fallacy: Definition and Examples
key theoretical term is equivocality, meaning uncertainty, complication,ambiguity, and lack of predictability. All information from the environment,according to Weick, is equivocal or ambiguous to some degree, and organizingactivities are designed to reduce this lack of certainty.
Karen A. Foss • Theories of Human Communication
Useless to strive to be convincing in this case. Over the centuries no one has furnished a clearer and more elegant demonstration of the business than Aristotle: “The often ridiculed consequence of these opinions is that they destroy themselves. For by asserting that all is true we assert the truth of the contrary assertion and consequently the fal
... See moreAlbert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
It is no more in this way than in that, or in neither.
(Aulus Gellius, via Henricius Stephanus’ 1562 annotated edition of Sextus Empiricus)