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- Tainted Sample - collecting evidence in a way that one is bound to find more evidence for a specific hypothesis than against it
- Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy - when computing probabilities of events, focussing on events that did happen, ignoring events that didn't
- The Company that You Keep Fallacy - attacking the opponent by attacking a person who is somehow related to him
- Theoretic Fallacy - mistaking an explanation for an argument for the thing it explains
- Throw Stones - dismissing a statement as absurd without giving a reason
- To Authority - "he's an authority (for something else, but I will gloss over that), he must be right"
- To the People - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- To Veneration - "he's an authority (for something else, but I will gloss over that), he must be right"
- Tokenism - taking a merely token gesture as an adequate substitute for the real thing
- Too Broad - when defining a term, including instances that aren't usually called by that term
- Too Narrow - when defining a term, excluding instances that are usually called by that term
- Traditional Wisdom - "people have been believing this for ages, it must be right"
- Trick Question - asking a question that doesn't allow an answer that denies a certain idea
- Trivial Objections - trying to undermine the main point by complaining about a minor point
- Tu quoque - trying to escape from an accusation by directing the same accusation right back
- Tu quoque Fallacy - trying to escape from an accusation by directing the same accusation right back
- Two Negative Premises - "no penguins are mammals, no penguins are insects. therefore no mammals are insects"
- Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right - trying to escape from an accusation by directing an accusation right back
- Type-Token Ambiguity - using a collective word (like "you", "we", or "the people") without specifying which group exactly one is talking about
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