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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Prosecutor's fallacy, Begging the question, No true Scotsman, Fallacies of definition, Straw man, False dilemma, Relativist fallacy, Ad hominem, Confirmation bias, Non sequitur, Argumentum ad baculum, Sunk costs, Truthiness, Mathematical fallacy, List of fallacies, Conditional probability, Fallacy of quoting out of context, List of published incomplete proofs, Anecdotal evidence, Pathetic fallacy, Wisdom of repugnance, Ecological fallacy, Hoyle's fallacy, Reification, Halo effect, Etymological fallacy, Spurious relationship, Regression fallacy, Ludic fallacy, Idola specus, Greedy reductionism, Idola fori, Idola tribus, Nirvana fallacy, Idola theatri, Presentism, Deductive fallacy, Conjunction fallacy, Hasty generalization, If-by-whiskey, Homunculus argument, Appeal to probability, Category mistake, Definist fallacy, Poisoning the well, Infinite regress, Suggestive question, Confusion of the inverse, Parade of horribles, Moving the goalposts, Argumentum e contrario, False premise, Meaningless statement, Package-deal fallacy, Inconsistent triad, Appeal to ridicule, Historian's fallacy, Three men make a tiger, Square logic, Psychologist's fallacy, Proving too much, Intensional fallacy, Proof by assertion, Historical fallacy, Denying the correlative, Masked man fallacy, Correlative-based fallacies, False attribution, Retrospective determinism, Ad captandum, Trivial objections, Pro hominem, Appeal to law, Judgmental language, Fallacy of distribution, Double counting, Post disputation argument, Suppressed correlative, Van Gogh fallacy, Inconsistent comparison, Anangeon, Argument from setting a precedent, Incomplete comparison, Descriptive fallacy. Excerpt: Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardle...
