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Unwarranted assumption fallacy or Fallacies of Presumption

I removed the following from the formal fallacies:

Unwarranted assumption fallacy - The fallacy of unwarranted assumption is committed when the conclusion of an argument is based on a premise (implicit or explicit) that is false or unwarranted. An assumption is unwarranted when it is false - these premises are usually suppressed or vaguely written. An assumption is also unwarranted when it is true but does not apply in the given context.

It has no citation nor article. I (and others I suppose) left it there because it seems like there should be one. I look around again for some support and discovered it is refereed to as "Fallacies of Presumption" and is a category of both formal and informal fallacies.^[1]^[2]

Perhaps we should add a section mentioning different ways of categorizing fallacies. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 18:36, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Thompson, Loren J. (1995). Habits of the Mind: Critical Thinking in the Classroom. University Press of America. pp. 118–125. ISBN 978-0-7618-0017-0. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
^ Creighton, James Edwin (1909). An Introductory Logic. Macmillan. p. 180. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

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fallacy of a faulty comparison?

i was going about my internet browsing like usual when i came across a picture that said "a liberal's paradise would be free this and that and the other. but believe it or not, a place like that exists. it's called prison" that isn't really an accurate comparison, is there some type of fallacy that covers this?

[Thompson1995-1] Thompson, Loren J. (1995). Habits of the Mind: Critical Thinking in the Classroom. University Press of America. pp. 118–125. ISBN 978-0-7618-0017-0. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

[Creighton1909-2] Creighton, James Edwin (1909). An Introductory Logic. Macmillan. p. 180. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

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+== fallacy of a faulty comparison? ==
+i was going about my internet browsing like usual when i came across a picture that said "a liberal's paradise would be free this and that and the other. but believe it or not, a place like that exists. it's called prison" that isn't really an accurate comparison, is there some type of fallacy that covers this?