Bad Moves

Bad Moves is a series by philosopher Julian Baggini detailing the various ways in which arguments or points are made badly, but often persuasively. Julian Baggini is editor of The Philosophers' Magazine.

• The innocent have nothing to fear
• Motivation speculation
• Category Mistakes
• It worked for me…
• Contorting to balance
• Don't You Look Pretty Today
• Mood music
• Percipi est esse
• Scare-mongering
• Bold assertion
• It didn’t work then, so…
• Fallacy of equivocation
• Partial defence = support
• High redefinition
• The gambler's fallacy
• How else do you explain it?
• It's a free country
• Tu quoque
• Ought without can
• Genetic fallacies

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