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	Logical Fallacy: Red Herring
		The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent.
		Thus, a "red herring" argument is one which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy.
		Of course, fallacies of ambiguity involve irrelevance, in that the premisses are logically irrelevant to the conclusion, but this fact is disguised by ambiguous language.
	www.fallacyfiles.org /redherrf.html (465 words)

	Ignoratio elenchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This logical fallacy is sometimes used in an attempt to confuse or distract someone else intentionally.
		This phrase is thought to have originated from the use of smoked herring fish to distract dogs following a scent trail.
		(This is an example of a red herring, as the speaker attempts to distract from tax policy with the unrelated matter of the alleged affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_herring_(fallacy) (412 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)

	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)

	Red Herring
		It is a fallacy of distraction, and is committed when a listener attempts to divert an arguer from his argument by introducing another topic.
		The fallacy gets its name from fox hunting, specifically from the practice of using smoked herrings, which are red, to distract hounds from the scent of their quarry.
		Just as a hound may be prevented from catching a fox by distracting it with a red herring, so an arguer may be prevented from proving his point by distracting him with a tangential issue.
	www.logicalfallacies.info /redherring.html (169 words)

	Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
		This is the fallacy of assuming that something is false simply because a proof or argument that someone has offered for it is invalid; this reasoning is fallacious because there may be another proof or argument that successfully supports the proposition.
		The term red herring is sometimes used loosely to refer to any kind of diversionary tactic, such as presenting relatively unimportant arguments that will use up the other debaters' speaking time and distract them from more important issues.
		In addition, it is not fallacious at all to point out that certain advantages or disadvantages may apply equally to both positions presented in a debate, and therefore they cannot provide a reason for favoring one position over the other (such disadvantages are referred to as "non-unique").
	www.csun.edu /~dgw61315/fallacies.html (5262 words)

	Red herring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A red herring is something designed to throw the listener or reader off the track (a distraction).
		The red herring fallacy is to discuss a topic that sounds like it is relevant to the main topic, but actually is not.
		In popular usage, a red herring is an irrelevant fact that is thrown out in order to make it more difficult to reach the correct conclusion.
	info-pollution.com /herring.htm (411 words)

	Red herring - SourceWatch
		A red herring is an irrelevant issue used as a distraction to divert attention from the primary issue.
		Red herrings are usually used in attempts to deliberately mislead.
		Related fallacies of this type include: appeal to consequences, bandwagon fallacy, emotional appeal, guilt by association, straw man, and two wrongs make a right.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Red_herring (308 words)

	Common Argument Fallacies
		The "Missing the Point" fallacy occurs when the premises of an argument appear to lead up to one particular conclusion but then a completely different conclusion is drawn.
		The "Hasty Generalization" fallacy occurs when there is a likelihood that the sample is not representative of the group.
		The "Suppressed Evidence" fallacy is committed when an arguer ignores evidence that would tend to undermine the premises of an otherwise good argument, causing it to be unsound or uncogent.
	www.liberty.k12.mo.us /hs/WB/wh_caf.htm (412 words)

	Teach Philosophy \| Preview (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-01.bu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The circular argument is a fallacy of presumption that persuades by stating the conclusion at the beginning and the end of the proposition.
		The red herring is another example of a fallacy of presumption that influences opinion by introducing irrelevant issues into the argument.
		Red herring gets it name from the fact that escaping prisoners would smear themselves with fish to throw the search dogs off the track.
	www.teachphilosophy.com.cob-web.org:8888 /lessons/book2/20.htm (196 words)

	Fallacies - Jon's Homeschool Resources
		The Amphiboly fallacy occurs when the arguer misinterprets a statement that is ambiguous, owing to some structural defect and proceeds to draw a conclusion on this faulty interpretation.
		The Composition fallacy is committed when the conclusion of an argument depends on the erroneous transference of characteristic from the parts of something into the whole.
		In other words, the fallacy occurs when it is argued that because the parts have a certain characteristic, it follows that the whole has that characteristic, too.
	www.midnightbeach.com /hs/fallacys.htm (399 words)

	Red Herring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The fallacy of Red Herring mimics this conversational shift to a new topic.
		A deductive fallacy of soundness, with a falsehood in the major premiss, in the Fallacies of Diversion family.
		This is probably not the earliest source for this fallacy, but I have not so far been able to authoritatively identify an earlier source.
	www.cuyamaca.net /bruce.thompson/Fallacies/redherring.asp (370 words)

	Red herring fallacy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-01.bu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Red herring fallacy they discriminate between fact and values is an example if the dialectic stage.
		Of course, red herring fallacy it to the victims of red herring fallacy course, possible that some forms of one issue see smokescreen.
		In general, red herring fallacy debaters should be an error in reasoning is to characterize these twenty reasons.
	fallacy.fubarentertainment.com.cob-web.org:8888 /red-herring-fallacy.html (897 words)

	Red Herring (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-01.bu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In writing, a red herring is a topic or statement used to distract the reader's attention from the central issue by raising irrelevant issues.
		Red herrings are often used to hide weak arguments or to divert attention away from a volatile issue.
		Although the boyfriend’s response is fallacious, he provides the positive emotional response that she may have been looking for, and he avoids a confrontation that could ruin their evening.
	ksuweb.kennesaw.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~shagin/logfal-distract-redherring.htm (473 words)

	JP:
		The fallacy of complex questions is when an arguer poses a question which includes something in its construction which is presumed true by the question itself.
		This is the same fallacy made in question number two: namely, that your conclusion (“that is a warmonger response”) does not follow from the acceptance of the statement above.
		In fact, quite the opposite: it is a logically fallacious quiz which appears to be deliberately designed to mislead those taking it into agreeing with your position—not out of genuine moral concern and logical reasoning, but rather out of trickery.
	www.tektonics.org /guest/vance01.htm (2647 words)

	Fallacies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	The Original Blog » Blog Archive » Red Herring (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-01.bu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.
		This sort of “reasoning” is fallacious because merely changing the topic of discussion hardly counts as an argument against a claim.
		Red Herring is the place for you, RiShawn.
	www.bennett.com.cob-web.org:8888 /blog/index.php/archives/2002/05/25/red-herring (319 words)

	Fallacy List
		The difference between the two fallacies is that appealing to extremes does not necessarily involve a sequence of causal connections.
		A red herring fallacy is thus a diversionary tactic or an attempt to confuse or fog the issue being debated.
		The name of the fallacy comes from the days of fox hunting, when a herring was dragged across the trail of a fox in order to throw the dogs off the scent.
	commfaculty.fullerton.edu /rgass/fallacy3211.htm (1943 words)

	Logical Fallacies Used in SUV Advertisement
		The Wishful Thinking Fallacy is also in use in the picture subtitle that says "let your urban adventures begin." This line makes the reader think he will have this great adventure just by getting a Murano when in fact the buyer may never even enter an urban environment in his Murano.
		It uses these elements as a Glittering Generality Fallacy in order to accept that this Hummer is a rough and rugged vehical with even looking at the evidence.
		He is using the Bandwagon Fallacy in order to get the woman to accept the SUV for her car.
	iron.lcc.gatech.edu /~gtg182q/index.html (1491 words)

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		Group 3 Mission: Explain to your boyfriend (or girlfriend) why you were kissing his/her best friend at the party Friday night using a bandwagon fallacy.
		Group 4 Mission: Convince your boss that it’s not your fault you were late for work this morning using a red herring fallacy.
		Group 5 Mission: Convince a potential employer to hire you for a job you aren’t qualified for using a hasty generalization fallacy.
	www.cfcc.edu /english/fallacygroupwork.doc (162 words)

	FREQUENTLY USED FALLACIES
		Straw Man Fallacy, A person commits this fallacy when, rather than responding to the position of an opponent or alternative position, they oversimplify, exaggerate, or otherwise distort the alternative, and argue against that distorted version.
		Red Herring, An argument whose reasoning deflects attention by changing the subject or diverting the listener away from the real issue under discussion.
		Attacking the messenger, (ad hominem), is a common form of Red Herring Fallacy, where the personal character of the messenger is used to distract attention from the real issue.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~philclub/fall.htm (1174 words)

	The Fallacy Detective
		A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
		You didn't answer her question!" All the other kids joined in and there was a chorus of children shouting, "Red Herring!" at their teacher.
		For those of you in the same boat, a fallacy is an error in logic, a place where someone has made a mistake in their thinking.
	www.christianlogic.com /catalog/the_fallacy_detective.htm (3484 words)

	Trivial objections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trivial objections (also referred to as nothing but objections, barrage of objections and banal objections) is an informal logical fallacy where irrelevant and sometimes frivolous objections are made to divert the attention away from the topic that is being discussed.
		Trivial objections are a special case of red herring.
		The fallacy is committed because of this diversion; it is fallacious to oppose a point on the basis of minor and incidental aspects, rather than responding to the main claim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trivial_objections (232 words)

	RSA Debate Round 2, Part 2a
		Red herring fallacy (or possibly strawman fallacy, depending on how one wishes to interpret your intent).
		This seventh accusation of a red herring is as incorrect as the prior six.
		Providing counterarguments for all possible misinterpretations of the quote is not a red herring, nor is it a straw man. It is a pre-emptive strike, designed to keep us from going down well-trodden paths toward the graves of previously attempted counter-arguments.
	www.stardestroyer.net /Empire/HateMail/RSA/Round2b-1.html (5570 words)

	List of fallacy pages:R - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Red Herring - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
		Red Herring Fallacy - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
		Regression Fallacy - attributing a regression to the mean to another reason
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php?title=List_of_fallacy_pages:R&redirect=no (444 words)

	Robert Morey response to Khalid Jan and Khalid Jan reply
		The second fallacy you committed is called the "red herring" fallacy.
		By doing that, you committed two fallacies, first called Hasty Generalization - drawing a general conclusion from insufficient evidence (logical), and second Sweeping Generalization - (dicto simpliciter) applying a principle to a specific situation while ignoring the context under which the principle was formed (conceptual).
		Thus, committing another conceptual fallacy called Quoting Out of Context - manipulating a quote either from an authority or from one's interlocutor in such a way that the original meaning of the statement is altered (Fallacy of Authority).
	www.answering-islam.org /Resources/Morey/moreyres.htm (1559 words)

	argue_answer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is a red herring fallacy and an example of unethical argument because it prevents the speaker from making his or her case: it does not promote the free exchange of ideas.
		Without having evidence to support a true causal chain of occurrences, it is fallacious to argue that we cannot draw lines.
		The either-or fallacy is rarely persuasive because it is so easy for the audience to imagine a third or fourth option.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~mlaware/spcm212/argue_answer.html (427 words)

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	www.magazinecity.com /101z-48.html (159 words)

	bc skeptics \| critical thinking \| relevance: red herring
		The term "red herring" refers to a practice of scattering old fish around a field during fox hunts to throw the dogs off the scent.
		Red herrings are statements that do not truly support the conclusion.
		They are commonly elaborate, sometimes containing bucketloads of facts, none of which truly bear on the conclusion.
	www.bcskeptics.info /resources/criticalthinking/irf.redherring.html (168 words)

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