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	Ad hominem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In contrast, an argument that instead relies (fallaciously) on the positive aspects of the person arguing the case is known as appeal to authority.
		An ad hominem fallacy consists of asserting that someone's argument is wrong and/or he is wrong to argue at all purely because of something discreditable/not-authoritative about the person or those persons cited by him rather than addressing the soundness of the argument itself.
		The argumentum ad hominem is a genetic fallacy and red herring, and is often (but not necessarily) an appeal to emotion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ad_hominem (1269 words)

	Genetic fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the origin of a thing has no necessary relevance to its merit, an argument that uses such a premise for accepting or rejecting a claim about the thing in question should be regarded as flawed.
		In terms of categorization, the genetic fallacy is a fallacy of irrelevance.
		Fallacies of relevance: Genetic fallacy from atheism web
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genetic_fallacy (321 words)

	Logical Fallacies Handlist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Genetic Fallacy: The genetic fallacy is the claim that an idea, product, or person must be untrustworthy because of its racial, geographic, or ethnic origin.
		Composition: This fallacy is a result of reasoning from the properties of the parts of the whole to the properties of the whole itself--it is an inductive error.
		Division: This fallacy is the reverse of composition.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/fallacies_list.html (4845 words)

	Forms of the Genetic Fallacy
		But if reasons for belief are used as though they are reasons for truth, this has been recognized for most of the history of logic as an informal fallacy [1], the "genetic fallacy," in which the origin or the cause of a proposition is taken to have some bearing on its truth.
		The fallacy can take two common forms that are of interest: an ad hominem ("against the man") argument holds something to be false because of where it comes from; and an argument "from authority" (ab auctoritate) holds something to be true because of where it comes from.
		Answering a genetic fallacy with another genetic fallacy may be one reason why his answer has not historically been very satisfying.
	www.friesian.com /genetic.htm (780 words)

	Some Fallacies
		A fallacy is typically defined as, "A mistake in reasoning; a type of argument that may seem to be correct, but that proves upon examination not to be so" (Copi, 632).
		The Fallacy of Equivocation occurs when a word is used in two different contexts and is assumed to have the same meaning in both contexts, when distinct meanings ought to be preferred.
		The Strawman Fallacy is a type of Red Herring that attacks a misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
	www.tektonics.org /guest/fallacies.html (5276 words)

	Genetic fallacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The genetic fallacy is a logical fallacy in whichthe origin of a belief, claim, or theory is confused with its justification.
		This is a fallacy because the origin of the claim has no logical relation to its truth or falsity.
		Genetic fallacies include the ad hominem, argumentum ad verecundiam and the bandwagon fallacy.
	www.therfcc.org /genetic-fallacy-14007.html (195 words)

	The Autonomist - Logic Fallacies
		Genetic fallacy - Identifying something as being the same, in nature, as its origin or cause, or that its nature or character is determined by its origin or cause, or impugning something on the basis of its origin or cause.
		The pathetic fallacy is a subset of this fallacy.
		Inconsistency fallacy - Arguing from inconsistent statements, or to conclusions that are inconsistent with the premises.
	theautonomist.com /aaphp/permanent/fallacies.php (14595 words)

	CT.Lec4.htm
		The fallacy arises when a person's reason is attacked by citing the origin of the belief in cases where what caused the belief is irrelevant to whether it is true.
		This is not the Genetic Fallacy because the origin of the belief (in this case a source known to be unreliable) is relevant to whether we should accept the belief.
		B. The Genetic Fallacy could be considered to be a special case of the Ad Hominem Fallacy, because instead of attacking a reason on its own merits, you attack the person (by complaining about the way he or she got the belief).
	www.hfac.uh.edu /phil/garson/CT.Lec4.htm (1944 words)

	A Check List on Fallacies of Reasoningto be Avoided by Scholarly, Rational Persons
		Misuse of Authority Fallacy: This logical error is committed when someone tries to use an expert to prove something unrelated to the expert's field of competence, or cites an expert on an issue and then assumes that the expert's judgment is infallible.
		Genetic Fallacy: This logical error is committed when someone claims that something is "merely" or "nothing but" its genesis (its origin), or when someone demeans something because of humble or inauspicious beginnings.
		Misuse of Analogy Fallacy: This logical error is committed when someone assumes--without any transition of explanation--that the same laws pertaining to one situation are equally true in application to any similar situation, as when the descriptive nature of scientific laws (natural laws) is confused with the prescriptive nature of societal laws (laws of society).
	www.sedin.org /propeng/fallacs.htm (827 words)

	Article from PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS Issue 95
		According to the genetic fallacy, a psychological explanation of why someone believes as they do is beside the point; it could be an interesting empirical investigation in the field of psychology, but it is thought to play no role in determining what is true.[2]
		The genetic fallacy assumes that there is a right representing that some beliefs do and that we can determine which beliefs represent rightly and which do not; that reality impresses itself upon some people, making their beliefs true, and is missed by others, necessitating finding another origin for their mistaken beliefs.
		In that way, contrary to the genetic fallacy, the investigation of the psychological causes of beliefs and justifications affects what is determined to be true by altering what people think is true and what they think is the best method for determining what is true.
	www.philosophos.com /philosophy_article_96.html (2137 words)

	The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies
		Red Herring is itself a subfallacy of Informal Fallacy, which is a subfallacy of the most general logical fallacy of all: Logical Fallacy.
		Logical Fallacy is not shown in the Taxonomy, though it has an entry in the files, but every fallacy in the Taxonomy is a subfallacy of it.
		To understand an individual fallacy, it may be helpful to move upward in the Taxonomy via the "Type" link, in order to understand the more general fallacy of which it is a subfallacy.
	www.fallacyfiles.org /taxonomy.html (534 words)

	classical rhetoric fallacies of distraction
		The fallacy can be a powerful persuasive device, because people are generally unwilling to be associated with those they abhor.
		The fallacious reasoning either involves the calculation of probabilities with an assumption of a relation between events which are actually unrelated, or from failing to take into account factors affecting likely outcomes.
		The likelihood of forthcoming events is not necessarily a fallacious consideration in all instances.
	www.ironyparty.org /fallaciesdistraction.htm (301 words)

	Logic Discussion Board :: View topic - Genetic Fallacy vs. Ad Hominem
		My take was that it's a Genetic Fallacy because the attack is not against this particular person per se, but against this person's background or broader class as the source from which his argument stems.
		The Genetic Fallacy is the most general fallacy of irrelevancy involving the origins or history of an idea.
		It is fallacious to either endorse or condemn an idea based on its past—rather than on its present—merits or demerits, unless its past in some way affects its present value.
	www.christianlogic.com /forums/topic.html?p=7099 (666 words)

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		My argument will be that the problem of "men writing the feminine," to borrow the title of a recently-published collection of essays, involves a version of the genetic fallacy, what older logic texts explained as a confusion between a thing (an object of explanation) and its origins.
		The genetic fallacy as I want to consider it is usefully exemplified in an analysis of Eloisa to Abelard undertaken a few years ago by Ellen Pollak in a feminist study of the poetry of Pope and Swift.
		The easiest way to see why this reading rests on the genetic fallacy is simply to imagine what would happen in an imaginary scenario in which it had turned out, through some recently-discovered documentation, that Eloisa to Abelard had been written by not by Pope but by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wcd/gender.htm (512 words)

	Intro to Fallacies
		The form of Fallacious Appeal to Authority is the same as any appeal to authority, whether sound or fallacious: "My position is the right position on this issue because So-and-so says it is." As soon as you can boil down an argument to this form, you should checkfor Fallacious Appeal to Authority.
		GENETIC FALLACY is committed only in answer to an argument (or a piece of an argument) when, instead of replying to the argument we direct our attention to something about the source of the argument in order to discredit it.
		Unlike the genetic fallacies, Straw Man does pay attention to the argument of the opponent--but the fallacy is committed when that argument is set up to make it weak and vulnerable to attack.
	www.humboldt.edu /~jwp2/fallbas.htm (2054 words)

	Maverick Philosopher Leno, Flew, and the Genetic Fallacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Genetic Fallacy rests on the failure to appreciate that questions about the truth or falsity, or rational acceptability or unacceptability, of a proposition are logically independent of any role that the believing of said proposition might play in the believer's mental economy.
		So the author of the article is ALSO committing the genetic fallacy (in reverse if you will): he is suggesting that because Flew does not believe in a post-mortem state, that his belief that God exists is logically acceptable.
		To accuse Leno of committing a fallacy, however, is to suggest that in that context he was falling short of a standard to which he was obliged to adhere.
	maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com /posts/1115674343.shtml (1416 words)

	Genetic fallacy - InformationBlast
		The genetic fallacy is a logical fallacy in which the origin of a belief, claim, or theory is confused with its justification.
		This fallacy is more often used to discredit a belief, though it may also be used to support one.
		However, if you were sure that the origin of the idea (a person, usually) was always correct or was always wrong, you could safely move from the origin of the claim to an evaluation of its truth or falsity.
	www.informationblast.com /Genetic_fallacy.html (182 words)

	Journal of ChuckB (2703) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The genetic fallacy is not a flaw in one's DNA, but rather an invalid form of argumentation.
		An AP provided an excellent example of the genetic fallacy in his/her reply to a response of mine in the AlterNet Movie Mix thread (see also my subsequent response).
		One substantial factor contributing to the polarization of today's political discourse is the shoddy reasoning (or unreasoning?) engaged in by so many on all sides, and the genetic fallacy has become a prince among fallacies, because it feeds our demonization of "the other side".
	www.lisnews.com /~ChuckB/journal/1349 (570 words)

	Logical fallacy - CreationWiki
		According to a leading logical fallacy website, "The Genetic Fallacy is the most general fallacy of irrelevancy involving the origins or history of an idea.
		Conflation is the logical fallacy of treating two distinct concepts as if they were one.
		EvoWiki's page on fallacies, for example, is itself a case-study in fallacies made by evolutionists.
	www.creationwiki.net /index.php?title=Logical_fallacy (1557 words)

	Is the genetic fallacy always a fallacy? :: Forums :: The Infidel Guy Show :: Taking a Critical Look At What We Believe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Genetic Fallacy: the origin of a claim is independent of its truth or falsity.
		genetically), rather than environmental or other social influences, otherwise you're leaving out a lot of hidden assumptions in your argument that sons of criminal fathers are more likely to be criminals themselves.
		This is all the Genetic Fallacy because you're not examining the claims of atheism or whether atheism caused those regimes to be totalitarian rather than was adopted for a political purpose, or whether atheism influenced criminal behavior somehow.
	www.infidelguy.com /ftopicp-240116.html (2336 words)

	Fallacies
		In order to understand what a fallacy is, one must understand what an argument is. Very briefly, an argument consists of one or more premises and one conclusion.
		To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support.
		A deductive fallacy is a deductive argument that is invalid (it is such that it could have all true premises and still have a false conclusion).
	www.nizkor.org /features/fallacies (524 words)

	Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion - The Pagan Influence Fallacy
		This fallacy is often committed by Fundamentalists against Catholics; by Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and others against both Protestants and Catholics; and by atheists and skeptics against both Christians and Jews.
		The pagan influence fallacy holds that a particular religion, belief, or practice is of pagan origin or has been influenced by paganism and is therefore tainted or altogether corrupt.
		When the pagan influence fallacy is encountered, it should be pointed out first of all that it is a fallacy.
	www.speroforum.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1616 (2145 words)

	ShrinkWrapped: THE New York Times and (the Fallacy of) Genetic Determinism
		Genetics is the study of genes and how they are reproduced and expressed.
		Every time another scientific study is cited reporting on the existence of a "gay gene" or that a certain behavior is "inherited", the reductionist, overly simplistic explanation offered, adds to the idea that people are not responsible for much of their behavior.
		If behavior is genetically determined, then that no one, [with the exception of those who are members of the designated incorrect "ruling class" ie, rich, white Christians, according to Howard Dean], is ever really responsible for their own behavior.
	shrinkwrapped.blogs.com /blog/2005/06/the_new_york_ti.html (2186 words)

	Argumentum ad populum in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		This fallacy is sometimes committed while trying to convince a person that a widely popular theory is true.
		It is logically fallacious because the mere fact that a belief is widely held is not necessarily a guarantee that the belief is correct; if the belief of any individual can be wrong, then the belief held by multiple persons can also be wrong.
		This fallacy is similar in structure to certain other fallacies that involve a confusion between the justification of a belief and its widespread acceptance by a given group of people.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Bandwagon_fallacy (962 words)

	Gene Expression: Measuring Genetic Diversity: Lewontin’s Other Fallacy
		In measuring genetic diversity we are attempting to quantify the extent of differences within or between populations.
		For this purpose all genetic differences are potentially informative, and the tendency is to treat all differences as equal.
		Most measures of genetic diversity are therefore based on some index of heterozygosity: the probability that two genes at a given locus, selected at random from the relevant population(s), will be different.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/003951.html (1760 words)

	PANNA: The Fallacy of Genetic Engineering and Smallholder Farmers in Africa
		Genetic engineering, the "wonder science," has made a rapid entry into agriculture.
		Genetic engineering is often considered an extension of the Green Revolution, a paradigm that failed to address the needs of Africa's small farmers and even exacerbated their problems.
		Essentially, biotech companies are pesticide companies and genetic engineering is one way to keep farmers on the pesticide treadmill and to keep profits growing.
	www.panna.org /resources/gpc/gpc_200304.13.1.06.dv.html (3840 words)

	On Informal Fallacies
		Students in introductory logic classes are required to memorize lists of them: the fallacy of composition, argument ad hominem, the genetic fallacy, and so on.
		Some climb beyond fame into infamy, like the naturalistic fallacy which may not be a fallacy at all.
		Fallacies are so much fun that some authors amplify their arguments by coining a fallacy for their opponents to have committed.
	www.fecundity.com /pmagnus/fallacies.html (504 words)

	The Genetic Fallacy
		It is fallacious to either endorse or condemn an idea based on its past—rather than on its present—merits or demerits, unless its past in some way affects its present value.
		While this fact is psychologically interesting, it is neither evidence for nor against the hypothesis that benzene has a ring structure, which had to be tested for correctness.
		So, the Genetic Fallacy is committed whenever an idea is evaluated based upon irrelevant history.
	www.fallacyfiles.org /genefall.html (250 words)

	Mental manoeuvres: The Genetic Fallacy by Julian Baggini
		Ignore this distinction and you commit what is known as the ‘genetic fallacy’.
		And it certainly does seem to be true that the genetic fallacy does infect the thinking of all of us at some time or another.
		In both cases, origins are being confused with justifications and the genetic fallacy is committed again.
	www.rationalist.org.uk /newhumanist/issue02summer/baggini.shtml (867 words)

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