Posted by Hallee on Apr 8, 2010 in
Critical Thinking,
homeschooling In this post, I will discuss the Fallacy of the Weak Analogy, sometimes called the Fallacy of the Questionable Analogy and sometimes mistakenly called a False Analogy.
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