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- Rationalization - hiding one's real reasons and giving one that will be easier accepted
- Red Herring - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Red Herring Fallacy - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Refutation by Caricature - "this is laughable, it must be wrong"
- Regression Fallacy - attributing a regression to the mean to another reason
- Reification - treating an abstract concept like a real thing and forgetting its origin
- Reification Fallacy - treating an abstract concept like a real thing and forgetting its origin
- Reification of the Existent - dismissing something as useless because it might not help
- Reification of the Possible - regarding one possibility as a foregone conclusion
- Relative Privation - trying to make something appear good (bad) by comparing it with something worse (better)
- Relativism - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Relativism Fallacy - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Relativist Fallacy - "one point of view is as good as any other"
- Repetition - repeating an argument again and again and hammering it into people's brain
- Repetition for Emphasis - repeating an argument again and again and hammering it into people's brain
- Retroductive Fallacy - fallacy where retroduction goes wrong
- Revenge - trying to escape from an accusation by directing an accusation right back
- Revenge Fallacy - trying to escape from an accusation by directing an accusation right back
- Reverse Accident - On the basis of the exceptions from a rule, rejecting the whole rule
- Reverse Gambler's Fallacy - "I threw a series of heads, so the next throw will very probably result in heads again"
- Reversing Causation - concluding that A caused B when it's the other way around
- Rule of Belief - demanding that others follow the same rules of what to believe and what not, as oneself
- Rumor - information that has gone through many hands and is different from what the original source said
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