Scott Anthony of the " Harvard Business Review " describes this scene as a " classic example " of the informal fallacy of assuming that correlation implies causation.
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I don't know if there's a formal name for it ( see informal fallacy ), but it would seem to depend a lot on specifics.
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A formal fallacy can be expressed neatly in a standard system of logic, such as propositional logic, Arguments containing informal fallacies may be formally valid, but still fallacious.
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This is based on an appeal to emotion and is a type of informal fallacy, since the desirability of a premise's consequence does not make the premise true.
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The Straw Man argument, an informal fallacy in which one misrepresents an opposing argument in order to further one's own, can serve as an example of misused prolepsis.
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An argument from silence ( ) is an argument based on the assumption that someone's silence on a matter suggests ( an informal fallacy ) that person's ignorance of the matter.
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An argument that commits the ambiguous middle fallacy blurs the line between formal and informal ( material ) fallacies, however it is usually considered an informal fallacy because the argument's form appears valid.
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Aside from being an informal fallacy depending on usage, such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool : the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda.
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:: : : ( 12 ) " Your strawman is not helping things you know . " " A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
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This slogan was particularly negatively received in Poland, and entered the Polish language as the phrase " umiera za GdaDsk ", used as a type of an informal fallacy, describing an argument nobody should agree with.
