ambiguity
burden of proof
base rate
no true scotsman
masked- man
If by whiskey
personal incredulity
Texas sharpshooter
the fallacy, fallacy
conjunction
using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.
saying that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, bit with someone else to disapprove.
making a probability judgment based on conditional probabilities, without taking into account the effect of prior probabilities.
presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made that is is necessarily wrong
saying that because one finds something difficult to understand that it's therefore not true.
cherry-picking data clusters to suit an argument, or finding a pattern to fit a presumption.
making what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of an argument.
the substitution of identical designators in a true statement can lead to a false one.
the assumption that an outcome simultaneously satisfying multiple conditions is more probable than an outcome satisfying a single one of them.
supports both sides of an issue by using terms that are emotionally sensitive and ambiguous