I think about this a lot. Is there a line you can draw where association becomes a valid argument for, for example, moral or ethical conclusions?
Let’s say there is a political candidate. This political candidate gathers alot of support from groups with questionable beliefs. Is it fair to judge this political candidate by the fact that they appeal to an audience with questionable beliefs or is this an association fallacy?
I was just browsing through some fallacies to watch out for and I came across the wikipedia page for "Argument from Authority." By using a source outside of your own personal knowledge, you are lending credence by association; "This source is reliable, therefore this evidence I am presenting is true," when really there is no connection between the authority of a source and the truth of the evidence it produces. How, then, can modern argument and politics exist when such a fallacy is present? You always need to rely on outside sources to prove a point!
These two articles (as well as some others) argument that guilt by association is considered as an ad hominem attack, because it targets the opponent by associating him with some negatively known third parties or figures.
But should it always be that way? What if the user of this fallacy targets the presented idea itself and not the person who tries to present\defend it?
I clearly remember it being another word/phrase describing that kind of fallacies better, but I'm not sure.
Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit to post this to!
Maybe someone has beliefs or makes decisions around "lucky number 7" or tries to avoid "unlucky 13" etc.
It would be best if people in the mental health field avoided these at all cost:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-saving_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_effect
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/One-way_hash_argument
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_guilt
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-waving
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_intimidation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences
