In this section, we cover fallacies associated with creating impossible standards. These include Moving the Goalposts, Nirvana Fallacy, Unfalsifiability, Proving Non-Existence, Definist Fallacy, Appeal to Possibility, and Appeal to the Moon.
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| Lesson 1 Introduction to Logical Fallacies schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 2 Reason and Rationality schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 3 What is an Argument? schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 4 How Beliefs are Formed schedule 6 min |
| lock Lesson 5 What is a Fallacy? schedule 7 min |
| lock Lesson 6 On Being a Smart-Ass schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 7 Fallacies: Who Commits Them? schedule 5 min |
| Lesson 8 Ad Hominem schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 9 Ad Hominem (Circumstantial) schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 10 Ad Hominem (Guilt by Association) schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 11 Ad Hominem (Tu quoque) schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 12 Ad Hominem (Abusive) schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 13 Poisoning the Well schedule 4 min |
| Lesson 14 Introduction schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 15 Appeal to Common Belief schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 16 Wisdom of the Crowd schedule 5 min |
| Lesson 17 Introduction schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 18 Appeal to Faith schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 19 Appeal to Heaven schedule 9 min |
| lock Lesson 20 Magical Thinking schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 21 Spiritual Fallacy schedule 3 min |
| Lesson 22 Deception Through Confusion schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 23 Introduction to the Deception Fallacies schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 24 Ambiguity Fallacy vs. Equivocation schedule 4 min |
| Lesson 25 Fallacies of Authority schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 26 Appeal to Authority schedule 11 min |
| lock Lesson 27 Appeal to Celebrity schedule 6 min |
| lock Lesson 28 Anonymous Authority schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 29 Blind Authority schedule 7 min |
| lock Lesson 30 Just Because Fallacy schedule 4 min |
| Lesson 31 Fallacies of Emotion schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 32 Appeal to Emotion schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 33 Appeal to Desperation schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 34 Appeal to Fear schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 35 Appeal to Anger schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 36 Appeal to Pity schedule 4 min |
| Lesson 37 Introduction schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 38 Argument from Ignorance / Absence of Evidence schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 39 Proof vs. Evidence schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 40 Plausibility vs. Probability schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 41 Dispositions to this Fallacy schedule 3 min |
| Lesson 42 Introduction schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 43 Circular Reasoning schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 44 Begging the Question schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 45 Complex Question Fallacy schedule 3 min |
| Lesson 46 Introduction schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 47 Multiple Comparisons Fallacy schedule 6 min |
| lock Lesson 48 Lying with Statistics schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 49 Ludic Fallacy schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 50 Hasty Generalization schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 51 Fake Precision schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 52 Biased Sample Fallacy schedule 7 min |
| lock Lesson 53 Base Rate Fallacy schedule 3 min |
| Lesson 54 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 55 False Dilemma Example schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 56 When it is Not a Fallacy schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 57 Denying the Correlative schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 58 Dichotomous Thinking schedule 4 min |
| Lesson 59 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 60 Moving the Goalposts schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 61 Nirvana Fallacy schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 62 Unfalsifiability schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 63 Proving Non-Existence schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 64 Appeal to Possibility / Appeal to the Moon schedule 6 min |
| Lesson 65 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 66 Red Herring schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 67 Discouraging Red Herrings schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 68 How to Respond schedule 3 min |
| Lesson 69 Introduction schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 70 Slippery Slope schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 71 Basically Science schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 72 Evidence schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 73 Number of Events schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 74 Confidence vs. Probability schedule 4 min |
| Lesson 75 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 76 Special Pleading and Emotion schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 77 Strong Personal Beliefs schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 78 Social Pressure schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 79 Compartmentalization schedule 6 min |
| Lesson 80 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 81 Weak Analogy schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 82 Non Sequitur schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 83 Extended Analogy schedule 7 min |
| lock Lesson 84 Reductio ad Hitlerum schedule 6 min |
| Lesson 85 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 86 Appeal to Nature schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 87 What Is "Natural," Exactly? schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 88 Simplistic Evaluation Problem schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 89 A Basic Misunderstanding of Science schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 90 Naturalistic Fallacy schedule 3 min |
| lock Lesson 91 Moralistic Fallacy schedule 2 min |
| Lesson 92 Introduction schedule 1 min |
| lock Lesson 93 Appeal to Tradition schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 94 Appeal to Normality schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 95 Reductio ad Absurdum schedule 5 min |
| lock Lesson 96 Fallacy of Composition / Fallacy of Division schedule 6 min |
| lock Lesson 97 Cherry Picking schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 98 Sunk-Cost Fallacy schedule 6 min |
| lock Lesson 99 Self-Sealing Argument schedule 2 min |
| lock Lesson 100 Shoehorning schedule 4 min |
| lock Lesson 101 Congratulations! schedule 1 min |
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