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Top five fallacies in ToK

You might have found the previous page on syllogisms challenging. Don't worry, you are not alone! Human beings, on the whole, are not very good at logical reasoning. In fact, there are patterns of wrong reasoning that are so common they have names. These are called logical fallacies. On this page we list the top five fallacies that recur, year on year, in the ToK essay. Hopefully by identifying them in the work of...

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