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False attribution: an advocate appeals to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased or fabricated source in support of an argument.


Proof by assertion: sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.




Wishful thinking: a specific type of appeal to emotion where a decision is made according to what might be pleasing to imagine, rather than according to evidence or reason.


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