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111:Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
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269:focusing on users of the Gamergate
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258:Gamergate harassment campaign
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344:University of Nebraska Press
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3518:Social impact of YouTube
3398:Knowledge gap hypothesis
3321:Social-desirability bias
3219:Information–action ratio
2821:Motte-and-bailey fallacy
1921:Affirming the consequent
1720:Advertising and products
1091:"Definition of Sea lion"
175:denial-of-service attack
124:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
107:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
45:denial-of-service attack
3493:Mass shooting contagion
2946:Evolutionary psychology
2841:Two wrongs make a right
2172:Denying the correlative
943:Oxford University Press
844:. Pinter & Martin.
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432:Oxford University Press
3483:Fascination with death
3346:Political polarization
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3239:Television consumption
2826:Psychologist's fallacy
2763:Argument to moderation
2753:Argument from anecdote
2703:Chronological snobbery
2327:Quoting out of context
2294:Overwhelming exception
2177:Suppressed correlative
2077:Quoting out of context
1952:quantificational logic
1926:Denying the antecedent
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3041:Pink-slime journalism
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2769:Argumentum ad populum
2758:Argument from silence
2462:Argumentum ad baculum
2240:Faulty generalization
1931:Argument from fallacy
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2599:Reductio ad Hitlerum
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2187:Illicit transference
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1916:Affirming a disjunct
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2540:Parade of horribles
2516:In-group favoritism
2342:Syntactic ambiguity
1985:Syllogistic fallacy
1908:propositional logic
1594:Padonkaffsky jargon
1006:"Twitter Is Broken"
203:Origins and history
78:, published by the
3194:Influence-for-hire
3172:Media multitasking
3167:Human multitasking
3085:Tabloid television
3036:Media manipulation
2626:Poisoning the well
2443:Proof by assertion
2418:Texas sharpshooter
2352:Questionable cause
2289:Slothful induction
2248:Anecdotal evidence
2108:Circular reasoning
2003:Exclusive premises
1965:Illicit conversion
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274:/r/KotakuInAction
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