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    Fusion Fallacy

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    Equity Essay 1. Introduction Two jurisdictions of law exist in Australia: equity and common law. ‘Equity is ‘the body of law developed by the Court of Chancery in England before 1873. Its justification was that it corrected‚ supplemented and amended the common law. It softened and modified many of the injustices at common law‚ and provided remedies where‚ at law‚ they were either inadequate or non-existent.’[1] Common law is ‘the unwritten law derived from the traditional law of England as

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    Informal Fallacies

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    There are many informal fallacies that can be discussed but I have chosen to speak of Bifurcation‚ and the Red Herring Fallacy. Bifurcation is a fallacy in which you are given a situation and a choice to make. It tries to let one feel as though it is either of those options but in reality there could be many more. In a sense it is like not telling the complete truth. You don’t really lie because you didn’t actually give a false choice or statement‚ but you didn’t really give all of the information

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    Fallacy: A Misconception

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    Fallacy is a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning. Even though we pay careful attention to our arguments and supports; we tend sometimes to commit mistakes. However‚ through critical thinking we could diminish faulty arguments. There are numerous significant topics to critical thinking. One aspect of these particular topics is the ‘fallacy’. In order to be a critical thinker‚ one should be able to recognize and avoid logical fallacies whenever possible. Discussed throughout this essay

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    Slippery slope is an informal fallacy of weak induction. It draws a conclusion from events of an exaggerated and improbable chain reaction. The following DIRECTV commercial shows a clear example of a fallacy of slippery slope: “When you wait forever for the cable guy‚ you get bored. When you get bored‚ you start staring out windows. When you start staring out windows‚ you see things you shouldn’t see. When you see things you shouldn’t see‚ you need to vanish. When you need to vanish‚ you fake your

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    A Formal fallacy is an error in logic that can be seen in the argument’s form without requiring an understanding of the argument’s content. All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs. * Appeal to probability – takes something for granted because it would probably be the case‚ (or might possibly be the case). * Argument from fallacy – assumes that if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious‚ then the conclusion itself is false. * Base rate fallacy – making a probability

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    claim that a hunter simply takes his weapon of choice to the woods and repeatedly fires willy-nilly at anything and everything that moves‚ inducing painful wounds to those harvested and stress to animals that remain within earshot of the noise. The fallacies of these arguments are plain. The human’s subconscious mind strives perpetually for perfection. When a hunter misses‚ be it a wounding shot or no‚ one can be sure to find the hunter at the target range the next day‚ striving to place the bullet correctly

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    Logic Fallacies

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    WHAT IS FALLACY: A "fallacy" is a mistake‚ and a "logical" fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. There are‚ of course‚ other types of mistake than mistakes in reasoning. For instance‚ factual mistakes are sometimes referred to as "fallacies". However‚ the Fallacy Files is specifically concerned‚ not with factual errors‚ but with logical ones. In logic‚ the term "fallacy" is used in two related‚ but distinct ways. For example: 1. "Argumentum ad Hominem is a fallacy." 2. "Your argument is a

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    y-int: x=0 5(0)-3y=-30 –– –– -3 -3 y=10 (0‚10) The Slope-Intercept Method: - The Slope-Intercept form of a line is y=mx+b‚ where b is the y-intercept ( a point ) and m is the slope. - Slope is a quotient of two numbers. ∆=“delta”(change) Slope Definition: m= Rise –––– Run ∆y y 2 - y1 ––– = ––––––– ∆x x 2 - x1 1- Solve for y to put the equation in slope intercept form. 2- Plot the y-intercept. 3- Using the slope as a fraction‚ rise y and run x to get second point. 4-

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    Geo for Rock Slope Stability

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    COMPARISONS OF SEISMIC ROCK SLOPE STABILITY ASSESSMENTS BETWEEN THE HOEK-BROWN FAILURE CRITERION AND MOHR-COULOMB FAILURE CRITERION By Qian Zhiguang A thesis is submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Civil engineering at The Deakin University School of Civil Engineering October 2012 Comparisons of the Hoek-Brown and Mohr-Coulomb ABSTRACT This paper describes uses limit equilibrium analyses to produce stability for rock slopes to show the difference between Mohr-Coulomb and

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    Birthday Fallacy

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    #1 The Birthday Fallacy can be described as the mistaken idea that the second proposition of the [What argument? Any argument? Hardly. You need to be more specific and detailed.] argument follows from the first proposition. It [what means this?] means that the way the argument is composed is not logically correct [How? What is the fallacy/}. The reason why the Birthday Fallacy is actually a fallacy is because it’s a mistaken belief based on the unsound argument. [NO! A fallacy is not a mistaken

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